Kate Karuri is creating dignity and visibility for Kenya’s domestic workers
ESTHER MUSEMBI, BIRD STORY AGENCY KATE Karuri worked as a domestic worker in Kenya for over ten years before calling it a day. But in those ten years, she saw how in-the-home domestic workers (known locally as housemaids, nannies or house helps) were treated by their employers and also noticed the behavioural changes of domestic workers after they were employed. "From my experience, I had noticed a recurrent behavioural and attitude change in domestic workers upon securing employment but I also saw how clients treated their workers when they entered their households. Both were not good," Karuri said. So in…