Josephine Napkonde

This is Josephine, she's an older activist from Kenya. On these pages, you can get to know her and join the campaign to get older people included in EU aid budgets and policies!

Josephine is 78. She rents a shack in a slum in Nairobi and cares for five children who were abandoned by a relative. Josephine does not get a pension. She sells vegetables and second hand clothes to earn money so she can feed the children and send them to school. She works most days from 5am to midnight and considers herself a talented businesswoman.

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