Breaking barriers: The young women powering Kenya's engineering future

Isuzu East Africa Limited Production Supervisor Gloria Mbula during an interview at the production plant along Mombasa Road in Nairobi on November 4, 2025.

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September 2020 should have been one of the happiest seasons of Mary Abour’s life. After five arduous years navigating through an electrical engineering course, she was set to graduate.

“I’d actually rented the gown to go for a photo-shoot, but there was no place open at the time,” she recalls.

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