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Wanjiru Kihusa
Wanjiru Kihusa was born in Nyeri, Kenya. She is blogger, social media trainer and digital strategist. She is the founder of Still A Mum Foundation.

Early Years
Wanjiru Kihusa was born in Nyeri. She studied Bachelor of Science, Information Technology at Jomo Kenyatta University from 2009 to 2012.She enrolled for Masters Degree in Communication and Public Relation in 2014 and graduated in 2016 from University of Nairobi. She joined Wananchi Online as an IT Sales and Support for one year between July 2007-June 2008 and from July 2008-December 2008 she joined Standard Charted Bank as Direct Sales Representative in Nairobi. In 2015 October she launched Still A Mum Foundation in Kenya.

Professional Career
Wanjiru joined Wananchi Online as an IT Sales and Support between July 2007- June 2008.

Later she joined standard Charted Bank as Direct Sales Representative between the month of July 2008 -December 2008

December 2012- November 2013 she became the Client Service Manager of Space Engineering Ltd, her roles were to Maintain and build Customer Relationships, In charge of the technical support department, coordinating all activities of Help Desk,prepare and monitor client contracts, communicate to customers on scheduled maintenance, network changes, sun outages and other issues that may affect their service, Coordinate all customer support software as well as communicating to the software vendors to fix arising issues and preparing monthly statistics for customer complaints to aid in decision making.

September 2012 she began her blog www.wanjirukihusa.com, where she conducts Twitter chats on relevant topics, offers bespoke training solution for bloggers and social media managers/ marketers.

October 2015 she launched Still A Mum Foundation, a platform that celebrates different kinds of mothers like adoptive mums. IVF mums, mothers who have gone trough pregnancy and infant loss.

Personal life
Wanjiru is married and has had 2 miscarriages and through her experiences of loosing the two babies she decided to quit her work to sensitized other women about her plight to many women, who have had miscarriages but they don’t talk about it, to get counseling and to get the compassion they need during their time of need. She has encourage other women who have had miscarriages to come out and talk about their experiences.

Wanjiru runs a campaign called #StillAMum. The campaign encourages people to support women who have gone through miscarriage and also those who are unable to conceive. She has organised forum for the women and Whatsapp groups for women to share their experiences and also counselling is offered to them.Wanjiru hopes one day she will be a mum.