Life-Changing Mini-Marts in Northern Kenya

This is a guest post by Kathleen Colson, founder and CEO of The BOMA Project, a partner of Segal Family Foundation. On September 19, Ntiriswa Lesurkukwa rose at 5 a.m. to milk her camel and prepare a frugal breakfast--a mug of hot tea--for her husband and four young children. Then she walked 20 kilometers across the arid scrubland of Northern Kenya with her friend and business partner, Ntitoya Arbele. "We had to walk slowly, slowly, because we feared elephants and wild animals," she said later that day. "And as we walked, we talked about how to run our new business, and how to achieve success." Photo of Ntiriswa Lesurkukwa. Photo credit: BOMA/Christina Goldbaum Ntiriswa had been chosen to...