Thursday, March 24, 2011

The daily life of a female Managing Editor in Kenya

Catherine Gicheru, Managing Editor over 150 reporters at The Star, Kenya gives her daily routines:

4.30 am: Wake up. Cook special diabetes breakfast for her mother, cooking breakfast for her sister who has a heart problem and fix lunch to go for the sister.

5.30 am: Wake up the children. Catherine has two children of her own at the age of 24 , & 17 , she also the take caretaker of the three children of a deceased sister in the age 21, 16 and 12.

6.45 am: Arriving at the office

8.30 pm: Leaving the office networking and meeting with contacts

11.00 pm: Arriving at home

Weekend tasks. Shopping food for the week to come. Washing the 15 dogs. Making the kids go to church - even when she is working Sundays. Catherine is on duty every other weekend, then will go to the mosque on Friday instead of the church on Sunday. "It is important that there is something more than me."

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