First Lady Margaret Kenyatta with Melinda Gates.[Photo/PSCU]
First Lady Margret Kenyatta has congratulated the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for providing girls and women a platform to reach out and share personal stories and reflections.
“Nothing creates a bond between people more quickly than shared experiences and shared human values”, said the First Lady at the ceremony also graced by Cabinet Secretaries Cleopa Mailu (Health) and Sicily Kariuki of the Public Service, Youth and Gender Affairs Ministry.
She said the initiative allows the voices of girls and women to be amplified by shedding light on many urgent issues that they face in their daily lives.
“We will always require examples to emulate, stories to give us hope; stories full of courage and optimism that will inspire and encourage us to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment”, she added.
The First Lady underlined the need to support initiatives that speak up to illuminate situation that put the girls and women at risk like early marriages or those that promote exclusion and discrimination in their careers.
Ms Gates said no society can hope to achieve full transformation without the empowerment and participation of women.
The Moth Program is in its 20th year and has show-cased the stories in over 20 cities across the world. It is the first time the program is holding the ceremony in Nairobi.