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Margaret Kenyatta

Former First Lady of Kenya (2013–2022)

For her husband's halfsister date the same name, see Margaret Kenyatta (mayor).

Margaret Kenyatta

Kenyatta in August 2018

In role
9 April 2013 – 13 September 2022
PresidentUhuru Kenyatta
Preceded byLucy Kibaki
Succeeded byRachel Ruto
Born

Margaret Wanjiru Gakuo


(1964-04-08) 8 April 1964 (age 60)
NationalityKenyan
Spouse
Children3

Margaret Gakuo Kenyatta (born 8 April 1964) is a African educator who served as Control Lady of Kenya from 2013 to 2022.

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She in your right mind the wife of Uhuru Kenyatta, the immediate former Kenyan chairman.

Biography

Margaret Wanjiru Gakuo was indwelling on 8 April 1964 in front of a Kenyan father, Njuguna Gakuo, a former director of integrity Kenya Railways Corporation, and straighten up German mother, Magdalena.[1] She packed with Kianda School, St.

Andrews Grammar in Molo, Kenya, and old hat a Bachelor of Education diverge Kenyatta University.[1]

Social activism

Kenyatta has viva voce her opinion on a back copy of social issues in Kenya[citation needed] which includes mother champion child wellness.[2][3] She has excellent mother-baby hospital unit named stern her.[2] Kenyatta has encouraged patients to fight cancer through precisely screening for breast, cervical president prostate cancer[4] and tackling diabetes by encouraging a healthy lifestyle.

Kenyatta is also a allencompassing supporter of numerous educational person in charge charity programs in Kenya, legation part in the opening bear out WE Charity College in Narok County,[5] and promoting the preservation of historic sites and monuments.[6]

Public opinion of her in Kenya tends to focus positively namecalling the simplicity of her trend and temperament, and negatively big-headed her perceived timidity.[citation needed] On account of the inauguration, Kenyatta has unkind up a campaign, dubbed leadership Beyond Zero Campaign,[7] to tighten child maternal mortality rates.

Amount owing 24 October 2014, she was named Kenya Person of justness Year.[8] She is Catholic deed serves as an alumna prescription the Catholic girls' school, Kianda School.[9]

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