Profile

I am a veterinarian by profession and currently I live and work in Kilifi at Pwani University where I am a Lecturer in the Department Of Animal Science. My day to day routine involves either going to a lecture theater or the farm where I teach students and interact with them. I am an active member of The Kenya Veterinary Association and the Kenya Women Veterinary Association where we not only mentor young girls and encourage them to join the profession but we also teach them the importance of taking care of animals. I earned my bachelor’s degree in veterinary medicine in the year 2011, and a master’s in veterinary medicine from the University of Nairobi in 2014. In my six years career as a veterinarian I have worked in a clinic treating animals, in an office set up as a project officer and in the university as a lecturer.

My work further involves career motivation where we talk to students in high school and at the university about the different career choices they can make as well as the requirements of getting there.

Community  service basically involves giving back to the local community where we do vaccination campaigns against important diseases such as rabies and offer free treatment service to animals in the region

In research we identify study gaps and try to answer the research questions on important issues that affect the community

My typical day may either be in the class room where we discuss different topics in animal physiology basically put as function of the animal body or it can be out in the farm where we examine animals and treat sick ones.

Other times it is a day in the field where we restrain animals and vaccinate them or perform simple procedures on them such as hoof trimming or dehorning.

The money would be spent in a community service activity. Recently we went to a small town in Kilifi county known as Vitengeni, where the chief expressed concern about Rabies and how one of the women in the village had been bitten by a dog and she had contracted rabies. Even though we had the desire to help and had the work force at hand we did not have any rabies vaccines for the dogs to prevent the disease. It is imperative that we create awareness through a public baraza and carry out a vaccination campaign in the community by vaccinating all the dogs. Therefore this money could help a great deal towards that.