Mending fray in my career fabric
Friday May 28 2021
By JACKSON BIKO
Summary
Ms Mungai studied at Fashion College International, Evelyn College of Design, and later did an International Business Administration degree from the United States International University (USIU)-Africa.
By some stroke of design, irony or the universe s intervention, she married the son of the founder of Evelyn College of Design where she lectured after her training.
As a former student, lecturer, and now director she has been with the school for 30 years.
“There was always a sewing machine in our house,” says Molly Mungai, the director at Evelyn College of Design. Her memory of childhood is filled with the incessant sound of a Singer sewing machine as her mom made and mended clothes.
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The general adage since the years of yore holds that women must always fight twice as hard as men to make a mark in the world.
Truth is that women have left lasting footprints on the social and economic fabric of our human existence, footprints that have remained visible for many years. Women have many enviable firsts.
In Kenya for instance, the first African woman to own and drive a car, as told by author Mike Eldon, was his mother-in-law, Marjorie Kimenyi.
Kimenyi descended from a long line of high achievers and according to a book,