
Resilience is women’s greatest ‘tech stack’ – Changemaker
Entrepreneur Naom Monari, 32, was working as a nurse when she realised something was missing in Kenya’s healthcare system, and she knew she had to do something about it. In 2017, with the support of the Futuremakers Women in Tech programme, she founded Bena Care, a digital platform connecting nurses and physiotherapists who treat patients with life-limiting illnesses in the comfort of their own homes. Her enterprise has since expanded across Kenya, and, together with her team, she has served over 25,000 patients (600 patients a month). “When my first patient, a post-stroke gentleman with hypertension and diabetes, was visibly tired and homesick while admitted at a health facility, and his son could not make frequent hospital visits because of his job, Bena Care became a lifesaver. We tended to…