NAME: LILIAN KATHIRI M’NKUBITU
AGE: 21
HOBBIES: PHOTOGRAPHY, READING,
HIKING, TRAVELLING, TEACHING AND BADMINTON
PROFESSION: MEDICINE AND SURGERY STUDENT
COUNTRY: KENYA
ROLE
IN IHAV: SECRETARY
BRIEF SUMMARY
I am a medicine student at Egerton
University, Kenya. I grew up in Meru County-Eastern Kenya, attained primary
education in Meru and passed well to attain a place at Starehe Girls Centre, a
national secondary school for Kenya’s brightest girls.
In high school, I learnt about
community service and since then I have participated in various community and
leadership projects. Upon completing high school education I joined the Global
Give Back Circle through
which every year I makes a commitment to give back to the community. Part of my
Give Back Commitment in 2010 was mentoring Primary School students at Masomo
Mashinani Foundation in Nairobi Kenya. The Global Give Back Circle has positively transformed me into a
global citizen and I am greatly appreciative of the great impact it has had in
my life.
Though a doctor to be by profession,
I am equally concerned about economic development, eradication of poverty,
quality education, and improvement of health in Africa. In October 2011 I
served as the delegate to African Union at the Girls20 Summit where with 20 other girls from the G20
countries, we discussed on ways in which girls and women would be involved in
economic development of the World. I am a contributing editor and author for
health and beauty for Hey Sister Get
Clued Up -a
peer-to-peer website for young women in Africa. In 2012, with help of five
classmates I co-founded, Reproductive Health Programme for Rural
Communities-(RHPRC), a charitable trust in Kenya which aims to
enhance reproductive health awareness to communities living in rural Kenya.
I believe in Africa’s potential and
am optimistic the continent will get better as long as everyone embraces and
acts on the changes necessary to transform it.
