Mercy Kamonjo is social entreprenuer, environmentalist and food security activist based in Kenya.
She is also the founder of Kuza Generation Initiative, a non governmental organization that works to empower communities struggling with the impacts of climate change.
She holds a BSC in Environmental conservation and passsionately works to promote environmental stewardship among primary/elementary and secondary school students, youths and communities in Kenya.
Mercy works with grassroot communities in rural, arid and semi arid communities to build their resilience to the impacts of climate change. This includes training to women and girls on sustainable and climate smart Agriculture methods of farming. She also trains them on conservation Agriculture as well as carries out fruit tree growing activities to curb food insecurity in the arid conditions.
She also runs a cereals business in Kiambu county where she obtains a variety of cereal produce from the country side and supplies them in the city as well to the residents of Kiambu county.
This business has been in operation for 8 months now, that is since May 2023 and has had an impact on hundrends of families already.