Linda Kairuthi Ethangatta’s parents were small-scale mixed farmers who encouraged their children to go to school. While in high school, Ethangatta was so impressed by a promotional presentation showing a woman walking confidently through the home economics laboratories at the University of Nairobi that she enrolled in the program. “I had no doubt that this was the course for me,” she says.
With proper nutrition, you can bring severely malnourished patients back to life without medicine, using food to rehabilitate them.
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I want to mentor rural women to help them appreciate the importance of linking health and food security with their own wellbeing.