Wanjira’s story highlights that financial independence is the ultimate leverage against domestic abuse, transforming economic agency into a literal life-saving exit strategy. It serves as a powerful reminder that professional success is meaningless if it doesn't grant a woman the autonomy to prioritize her own safety.
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I'm very salon it was one of the best salons in Nyerown Susan Wan Susan Wira is a person who has done very well in salon business and yet single does matter a single mom a single lady what matters is that you have all the ability you have all the potential destiny We rise buildings as a chemical.
You say this is the year of giving away houses this is the year of getting rid of rent projects Now I want to show you a four bedroomed mansion here I put it here it is a welcome home or do you like the clouding entrance and of course I am very sure you like the the rough and tough giving that house a very elegant look come in here and see how this house is as we trademia promito is beautiful and very strong guaranteeing your security. Let's go inside and see how delicious it is. When is the last time you saw such a masterpiece? Oh, this is what you call simple but elegant. We have a fireplace that doesn't light up.
You have sockets to place your TV here if you don't want to fire.
But if you wish to light the fire we have more sockets on this side making this a TV area and of course bracket is it and also the center piece how it is so beautiful wow living room the dining area. This is such a big room and of course this is so beautiful. This is what tr let me show you the kitchen. We always sample the kitchen in all the houses that we do. And you I am really sure that you're going to love this one. Now this one is already done. The hob is it the hob? Yes. The hob is already done.
His oven already we have used granite the work is granite granite. Just look at this and the kind of this what we call a mixture of standard and hybrid a mixture of standard and hybrid new and as usual our trademark is that you have enough storage in your kitchen. All these are cabinets and all these are cabinets and we have a pantry area here with more storage ha unique about this house is that it has a very nice washing area.
You store your detergents, your pegs, your everything here, and you wash your clothes there.
There are two washing basins, and you wash them there. Very nice.
Let's look at the first bedroom. Very fast.
Bedroom bedroom.
That's the common bathroom and bedroom.
This is our bedroom.
Guest bedroom with its own wardrobes and of course it ends suit in toilet nawa.
Very beautiful. Now most of the rooms they are similar to that room but I want to show you the master bedroom. Now before we get to the master bedroom this is the staircase always make sure that stair case.
Now this is what you would call a family room that seats five comfortably. That's the living room. Two more bedrooms. And this is the master bedroom. This is the master bedroom. This is the bed area.
Space and of course balcony facing the neighborhood.
neighbor and then of course I told you about nowadays is about a walking closet and this is what we have here with sliding doors. a walking closet with sliding doors. The sweetness is here. He says that bathing is a pleasure.
Sweetness, my friend, is bathing. And this client opted that we put him a bath tab.
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China this October is still on. It is very hot.
April October we all know what is happening with Iran and US and Israel review the package we had given you what we up to October hoping that by then so what does this mean for you China October now you have enough time to pay poleple from now to October you have about 5 months poleple travel with purpose China fairas that is the purpose of this trip guided trip market entrance na fusan market so that you sort yourself out but it is a guided trip safari for more commissionaribu sana parents are from scut education my primary school I was in Nyamachaki primary school then after that I went to Mobi girls in Moranga yeah product very nice very strict college business in Nairobi school called Kenya School of Hair Dressingogo so I did my hair dressing and beauty so attachment Mount Safari Club Hotel like my attachment but I worked very hard so whatever we were being given as our salary my tips were larger than the salary the salary I keep on saving Mount Kenya Safari Club Katya exactly beauty beauty beauty heading dressing manure pedicure Ah okay most of them margu na addressing from a while ago from long ago you know those days dressing like the less prostitutes k little they know that dressing it was the best um career ever in life even today if you see her head drressers who are doing very well they're doing very well M but my mom a lot of battle with me salon.
Okay. But I worked hard for it and before anything Mount Kenya Safari Club internship Yes.
from the go from the tips.
Yes.
That was 2001.
Yes.
So that salon was in town.
So that's how I did it.
M 300,000 300,000 small things my salon Yes.
I want to do it on my own. M I just I don't know how I think road it was the main street so I could know everyone was flowing from downstage to upstage. So I knew that it was the main street and then my mom had a shop next door. Hmm.
How long is the mug? Like eight months.
Yes. But after that proper itcked and it because I a very nice barber executive and I had once one side I had 15 girls.
Hmm. So you can imagine had 10 months imagine there is something you did maybe you are not doing the first month, the second month, the third month let me do this or just picked. What I I did I used I started getting girls from Nairobi I used to pay for them everything m and I pay them so I used to train my girls so anything latest that is it is in Nairobi it is in my salon ah so I trained very many people I know I have like 70 girls that I have trained under me and they're doing very well very well M so I to get from Nairobi days anything latest that came weaving good lines everything e tips yes then we did waxing I went to China I came with spars Shauru so anything that was done in airoby I used to do na China nayo waamime nyatia China I have my cousin to go to China to do very well m so I said that I want I want to give a try mh Mamy bank the manager was called mixed very big go down I did furnitur I did toilet I went back salon so China you didn't just focus and let me tell you something the mistake I Don't mix other business very well.
But if going to China if your focus is beauty, do beauty. Do beauty.
If your focus is fabrics, do fabrics.
Don't mix things up. Confused, you're lost here.
did and other things for beauty and everything confused. So you focus on one line.
Focus on one line.
Focus on one line.
Still no.
I had my first born girl.
She's in Australia. Hmm.
She's doing nursing.
Hmm.
And uh then after like seven years I got my twins.
Ed.
But I had a very bad marriage.
Ed.
Um, that man was very brutal.
In a way because sometimes I could get home very late.
Where did you meet? We just met this social media. social places.
Hmm.
Yeah.
Hmm.
I thought we would be a good man.
Hmm.
He acted like a good man but he was not.
Hmm.
He was very brutal.
Ed.
Coming home late and being late salon you know about salon. Ment Kenya work and which was very bad my brother to come and intervene it was refused and I be in love being love because I to out of that marriage of that marriage are youama But he made my my kids go through trauma like my daughter Natasha that pain cost her a lot you know and me I moved you in this case we still but what I thought we don't say stuck with him because I tried and I want to tell you one thing bad because I was so much in love but what I came to maybe myself you know like um I remember very well I I got into China charger jesh and that work could give me good money you know actually I could be very far very very far because people saw the potential in me but for I would love to tell men you know when she can because ofem out this is the last I'm going and I'm going I am not going back. I remember I had I had I had a house girl no girl I was going to Dubai Mam travel come to the bedroom before the kid get you know to my bedroom.
Hmm.
my brother so I confir him akija safari za problem ati ehe ati safari has this is not this is not my number at what I did what I wanted from M that's the time you left. That's the time I'm having twins.
It was it was a CS had a lot of pain. So I had my some callers because they so one day I told him I called him I told him come over the kids are really crying.
You know because even waking up is a problem boy look for water and don't call me again.
Where are you calling me?
What is your problem? Who to give to twins?
I had to call my mom. My mom drove at night I used to leave.
We had to call the father it was so bad I think have a problem I need to go and then I saw like this guy is a problem with him and I decided si I'm working si I am doing one two three let me leave nyum huko nyum nauma mh na my mama mama kijooy OB but I still came back to him to him we still came back yes m and we stayed for like four years and I left completely that time I left completely yes kule Kiroko I think I have a very beautiful girl.
You're so ugly. K I'm preparing breakfast for my children. We are so ugly. I have a very beautiful girl somewhere.
Ai then where did you come to the house? You stay with her. You go stay with her.
What?
The day it was it was done and done and done and done.
He kept people saying sorry I decided not to go back there again and I can't go back there again.
Yes. Hmm. they have m but not not that no it is now financially independent love respect paramount when from class four she has never paid school fees for those children from class four yes Australia he didn't even know he was going to Australia now ati I did it I did it myself he never knew that um even my kids were in M Safari Club Mount Kenya Academy I knew the school fees I used to be I struggled alone I struggled a lot covid came I got COVID mitari mh my mom but my mom passed na covid aka I don't know what I had in my life. I don't try to be like this.
I was almost being auctioned because of school fees.
I have a flat but I United Bank because the flat unit yes and it's the confidence you wake up saying today I will build your flat plot M I just plan slowly very arrogant very arrogant I don't understand him because I keep on telling my kids that is your father no matter what you give him respect between me and him we had disagreement but between you and him your father he is your father but you see whatever they saw in him it was matigelate so you don't need brainwash no you know blood so I keep on telling them that is your father no matter what you have to have blessings from him yeah something you mentioned daughter what is happening did you ever seek therapy for her or do you know what happened and later mh so what I did I went out. We went out with her and we talked a lot. Yeah. She told me I have pain relieved pain at relieved.
Yeah.
She's okay.
W they affected the w affected.
Like now my daughter didn't come for a holiday in Kenya.
Why if he was a good man?
So answer your question. Wow. Okay.
Why did I close?
Uh, what happened?
M I have trained so many girls.
Hmm.
Nyeri town is my product. M those young girls people those are you know they are my product. Hmm. And so when it came exhibition came and salon because they were cheaper than me and the same girls used to do salon. So what do we expect? They go to those people and those same girls. Same girl. So next but I had said because it was too much the girls may salon challenge so to sh I don't I used to I used to make money m when I had imagine I had 19 girls eh 18 19 girls and husband 80 per month so I make like even 700k in a month in a month yes in Nyeri in Nyeri I used to make money ati yes in we heret ya maruta I used to make money m wow that's why I decided I saved money and still kids no no way we so completely M Nairobi called Mary affordable houses contractor affordable houses materials you come and try and I'm happy. I'm okay.
And now she also does spordable SW auto where I am today very down and she used to be high the husband died things changed she went flat also yours that is the affordable they pay Yeah.
completely yes post covid 18 so it is like two years ago two years ago near not even two years opportunity of imagine by god affordable housing. Wow. Okay.
So much experience in business time to exit the salon.
Yes, I was doing very well ini. I was making this kind of money. Now it's time to exit. Uk spare parts before this are entirely new business.
Yes.
Okay. when you get challenged in doing the things that to do exit let me just go actually I've been very busy for many years mh M What about M so go study there inside go go do it walk there inside you ehe okay wajera is someone who has passed through gender based violence na yeu we mutumia you know outsideumia marakuona you're doing well you very beautiful you have your own business and doing very well but at home going through a lot of violence M looking back time such a scenario one would you even stay the years you stayed in that relationship actually like um my daughter in Australia she tells me mom if I can get a boyfriend who shouts at me I can't even stay with him you know So before you you engage yourself to anyone don't you have fallen in love learn who this person is learn flow perfumes you know and I like okay anyway in such in such a marriage what is that one word you have Walk walk walk out have that self love it is so painful because I was so much time maybe you understand husband heating out Just walk run run run for your life know the trauma I went through depression I went to chemistuka you can't sleep German machine that is MercedesBenz Audi BMW Range Rover is 0722 769082 M that is 07229679082 so purely German machines German actually I'm opening a garage. Yeah, I have a yard. I want to open a garage in like maybe end of this month I'll have my own garage.
German machines.
for the same car for the same car. Wow.
Thank you, welcome.
Thank you so so much worthy very good men out there. So yeah m m and no would you no go to death?
Oh yeah there's nothing lonely like this life of sness but I look at my children try TV you know like the two the twins shukuru you talk kidogo kido madhire you know you just there in the house alone alone yeah it is it is lonely college with no time it is lonely but what do you do the same the same web that I was in thank you so Someone told me about you. I have a salon train I was very happy in Airob there.
I am very happy. Wow.
Yeah.
MCA I trained she was to be my manager. She's MCA MCA Nairobi. So I'm happy. Wow. At least I am like that is what we call WhatsApp message out
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