Upendo Village, Founder's Profile

 

 

Sr. Florence Muia is a member of the Assumption Sisters of Nairobi, Kenya. She was born and raised in a rural village in Machakos District, Kenya. She holds a diploma in Social Work from Government Training Institute Maseno, B.A. in Social Sciences (Sociology & Anthropology) from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA) and a Master's degree in Pastoral Counseling from Loyola University, Chicago.

Muia has served as an administrator in a special school for hearing impaired children and also in a girls' elementary boarding school for several years. Sister Muia was the first nun in Kenya to venture into Probation work. She worked as a Probation Officer for more than eight years before proceeding to the United States for further studies. She is the founder of Upendo Village, a ministry catering for women and their children living with HIV/AIDS in Naivasha, Kenya.