Eleanor Opiyo

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Eleanor Opiyo
Role(s) SDDP African Core Participant
Co-Lab(s) Nairobi, 9-13 May, 2016
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Eleanor Opiyo

Eleanor Opiyo is a management consultant, accountant, visionary social entrepreneur and businesswoman. She is a student of Strategic management at Strathmore University with a passion towards strategic entrepreneurship and gender balance. She has been involved in various organizations and ventures working with relief assistance, entrepreneurship, capacity building, business training, education and mentorship particularly among a number of communities with emphasis on Samburu, Turkana and Luo Nyanza community.

Eleanor enjoys analytical thinking and creative problem solving. She envisions a world where there is equality and all rights are respected. She would want to see more young women empowered to know about their rights, exercise freedom of expression and grow into positions of leadership. This is bound to elevate the living standard of their families and communities at large. She is a proponent of social media as an advocacy and lobbying tool for the kind of world we would like to see and the change we hope for.


Eleanor's Peer Empowerment and Support Mentors is Joshua Forstenzer.




Eleanor Opiyo


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  1. Kiarie Kimani
  2. Emily Ongus
  3. Catherine Nyambura
  4. Jerono Odhiambo
  5. Berlyne Ogonji
  6. Percilla Arike
  7. Des Njalale
  8. Caroline Wambua
  9. Jackline Mberia
  10. George Ombeo