Cecilia from Kenya : From farm life to study in Australia

Kenya is probably best known in Australia for its long distance runners and safari parks, and it's not generally been a big source of migrants here, so it's perhaps why our knowledge of its people and culture are limited. Cecilia currently lives in Launceston, working as a project manager in the health sector.  As is very common in much of sub-Saharan African, she grew up on a small farm in a rural town amongst vegetable gardens and animals.  In common with other Africans I've interviewed, Cecilia was surrounded by extended family, something that is of much greater importance than it is here, and we talk more about that in this episode. She also came from a family that valued and pushed the importance of education, and it is perhaps this that provided the starting impetus for Cecilia to eventually decide to do her Masters in Melbourne, and after that eventually find a job in Launceston.