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Meet Charlot Magayi-one of our favorite entrepreneurs!

Orphaned when she was ten, Charlot was raised by her four older brothers in Mukuru Kwa Njenga, one of the biggest slums in Nairobi. At sixteen she became a mom. She dropped out of school and began selling charcoal to try and make ends meet. Charlot thought about all the waste discarded around her slum and all the women who longed for work. She thought she could try collecting the metal trash and recycle it into safe, yet affordable clean-burning stoves. She named her business, Mukuru, after the slum where she was raised. What started as an idea has become a booming business. Charlot now employs 238 people as sales agents and 25 people who work in her production factory. They have sold 42,500 stoves in the last 12 months. Listen to Charlot talk about how she got here and her big plans for the future!