How I jumped financial hurdles to build a thriving hospitality empire

Janet Chamia, hospitality entrepreneur and president of Skal Kenya Coast. [Robert Menza, Standard]

Like kids who grew up in the tiny dusty village of Ndundune in Kitui County, Mombasa's prominent tourism player Ms Janet Chamia, walked to school barefoot.

Girls who grew up in the county then had little dreams but Ms Chamia was to later prove many wrong. At first, she was a 'jack of many trades and master of none" as she tried many things in life.