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Florence Muia (born 1957) is a Kenyan religious sister, social worker, anthropologist and HIV AIDS activist. She and is a 2005 Nobel Peace Prize nominee

Background and education
Muia was born in Kawauni Village in Kangundo, the fifth of nine children. 1974, she was admitted at Manyatta Secondary School where she covered a distance of 20km to and fro.

Eager to learn and prosper in life, young Florence is full of gratitude to her mother who always met her halfway the road from school as she always reached home late at night.

After two years of suffering, endurance, hard work and prayers, she left school and joined the Assumptions SistersShe has a diploma in Social Work from the Government Training Institute, a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences (Anthropology and Sociology) from Catholic University of Eastern Africa and a Master's Degree in Pastoral Counseling from Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois (USA).