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Margaret Gakuo Kenyatta
First Lady of Kenya

Margaret Gakuo Kenyatta

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First Lady of Kenya
A.K.A.
Margaret Gakuo
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60 years
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St. Andrews School, Turi
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Biography

Margaret Gakuo Kenyatta (born 8 April 1964) is a Kenyan educator, First Lady of Kenya, and wife of Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, Kenya's fourth President. Her husband was inaugurated on 9 April 2013 at Kasarani.

Biography

Kenyatta was born to a Kenyan father, Njuguna Gakuo, a former Director of the Kenya Railways Corporation, and a German mother, Magdalena. She attended St. Andrews School in Molo, Kenya, and received a Bachelor of Education from Kenyatta University.

Social activism

Kenyatta has voiced her opinion on a number of social issues in Kenya ranging from mother and child wellness, including a mother baby hospital unit named after her. Kenyatta has encouraged patients to fight cancer by early screening for breast, cervical and prostate cancer and tackling diabetes by encouraging a healthy lifestyle. Kenyatta is also a big supporter of numerous educational and charity programs in Kenya, taking part in the opening of WE Charity college in Narok county, and promoting conservation of historic sites and monuments.

Public opinion of her in Kenya tends to focus positively on the simplicity of her fashion and temperament, and negatively on her perceived timidity. Since the inauguration, Kenyatta has headed up a campaign, dubbed the Beyond Zero Campaign,to reduce child maternal mortality rates. On 24 October 2014, she was named Kenya Person of the Year. She is Catholic and serves as an alumna of the Catholic girl's school, Kianda School.

The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article on 07 Jul 2020. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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