HPF Blog highlight: Leading By Example with Rosemary Neneni

“For a community to change, you need someone from within the community to do it.”

In Northern Kenya, Rosemary Neneni is helping to reshape what leadership looks like within her community.

At the Twala Tenebo Cultural Center, Maasai women are coming together to build pathways toward economic empowerment while remaining grounded in cultural identity and connection to land. Through this work, leadership is not imposed from outside—it is grown from within.

Rosemary’s approach reflects a deeper truth: lasting change happens when it is led by those who live it. By creating space for women to lead, learn, and support one another, the community is not only adapting—it is redefining its future on its own terms.

Read the full blog here.

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