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= Marion Atieno Moon = Marion Atieno Moon is the founder and Director of Wanda Organic, a company that deals with improving farmer productivity using bio organic fertilizers. In 2011, with a focus in the agriculture sector, she left formal employment to set up Wanda Organic expressly to develop and offer market based solutions to poverty. In Kenya, Marion through her company, has trained thousands of farmers in different parts of the country. Whereas more focus has been put on crop growth, Marion has contributed in soil enrichment to boost productivity. Through her company, she has undertaken various initiatives to help reduce food shortage through better farming methods including soil fertility. Marion has partnered with USAID, the Kenya climate innovation center, among others.

Early Life and Education
Marion Atieno was Born in Kenya, on 5th December 1983. She attended Braeside school, Brookhouse and St Mary Schools in Kenya for her early education before joining Macquarie University in Australia to study Business Administration. She graduated in 2006. Marion was raised in Nairobi.

Work and Experience
Marion has worked in marketing, media and customer service roles for large corporate companies in Kenya and Uganda, where she gained a reputation for customer-oriented, results-focused performance and built her knowledge and skills in business process design and management.

Marion earned her first work experience at Kenya tourism board,m where she served as an intern. Later, she was hired by Media and advertising agency, Scangroup where she was the Media Planner.

Marion has also worked at Insurance firm, AoN as an executive assistant before leaving in 2011 to start Wanda.

Through her visits to Philippines and Thailand, Marion learnt about Plantmate Bio-Organic fertilizers, which she went ahead to introduce to Kenyan farmers. It wasn't easy at first to convince the society and introduce her idea due to her gender. She faced resistance and many farmers were skeptical about embracing her idea since it focused on the soil. This forced Marion to conduct training sessions to several farmers to enable them to familiarize with the fertilizers.

Wanda Organic
Marion established Wanda organic in Kenya where she has been implementing her idea. Wanda Organic Ltd is a start-up for-profit social enterprise set up specifically to focus on soil health in Africa. The company deals with importing and marketing recently developed organic bio-fertilizers into the Kenyan market, raising awareness about the numerous benefits of such solutions, and building demand for them. According to Marion, her aim of is ultimately setting up local production facilities in various regions in Kenya and East Africa, where they have secured the exclusive rights for the technology (including Zambia and Malawi). The initial portfolio comprises two products, Plantmate™ Organic Fertilizer and Prime EC™ Foliar Plant Food. Plantmate is a basal fertilizer containing a variety of naturally- occurring bacteria and fungi, which acts very quickly to improve soil fertility, and Prime EC facilitates healthy plant growth. They are the breakthrough results of over 40 years in biotechnological research, carried out in The Philippines, and already licensed, approved and in widespread use by farmers across SE Asia, Indochina, China and Australia. Yet thus far they are unknown in East and Southern Africa.

Through this product, farmers are able to embrace more progressive and sustainable agricultural practices that have proven to increase yields, reduce crop cycles, suppress diseases and improve soil health. By adopting these new technologies farmers can increase their productivity (quantity and quality), ensuring both for security, improved nutrition and greater profitability.

Marion has given many talks and participated in innovative meetings to share her transformation journey. This includes the Global Economic Summit held in Kenya in 2015.