Janet Mbugua, a Kenyan media personality has been named an International Gender Champion (IGC).
Janet is the founder of Inua Dada Foundation whose scope of focus is gender equality.
She has been passionate about breaking barriers compounded in inequalities affecting both boys and girls.
Speaking of the award, she said that “I hold the firm belief that when everyone is included, everyone wins and this is the only way we can ensure that gender equity and economic empowerment programs continue being prioritized across the social and political spectrum.”
Former UN Geneva Director-General Michael Møller, ex-US envoy to the UN in Geneva Pamela Hamamoto and Women@TheTable CEO/Founder Caitlin Kraft-Buchman are the founders of IGC.
Her Inua Dada Foundation has been focusing in ways to better class attendance and performance in school and donates sanitary towels to keep all girls in school.
She has been running several campaigns online in the recent past all geared towards gender equality.
Janet says being named by the IGC is a big achievement, one that she would not have imagined of years ago.
“I’ve been named a gender champion by the International Gender Champions Network, alongside numerous global leaders. A few years ago, I wouldn’t have imagined that I’d be getting such an accolade today, but I also knew there was a shift in me and I could no longer be silent on matters inequality. That’s why I founded @inuadada,” she said on Monday.
Besides the Inua Dada Foundation, she recently launched her new book “My First Time” which dispels myths about menstruation for women and the shame associated with this.