Meet Lorna Joyce

Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Lorna Joyce. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Hi Lorna, appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?

I get my resilience from my Mom.

At such a tender age.. i saw how hard my mom worked to feed my little brother and I, she was also in a marriage that wasn’t that great.. and she persevered solely to ensure we got taken care of and went to school and finished..

Years later when she lost her husband and my little brother, she fell in to depression but still managed to cater to me to finish school and made some small investments that made sure i was set for a few years in my adult life..

She passed on a happy soul and she was even brave enough to let me know that she had lived her journey and wantee me to release her to rest in peace..

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?

Lorna Joyce is a lover of life, I love music, dancing, nature, sunrises, sunsets, and a mother of 3 amazing cats.

I grew up in different parts of Kenya but I found myself in Mukuru Slums after I lost both of my parents and my brother. Life was not easy, I had to navigate all manner of challenges in the slum area but I never gave up on my dream to become a Flight attendant, that’s all I wanted to be and do in life. Eventually at 21 years I got a job at Wilson airport in kenya with one of the leading flight companies there and I never looked back because all I wanted to be a successful flight attendant.

After 13 years of being in the air, and being a flight attendant in a private charter I grew to learn so much about businesses because I used to carry so many different people from diplomatic corps, dollar billionaires, presidents, Kings and Queens and they shared with me alot and the knack of business rubbed me off and I decided to venture into business eventually.

Binti Pads is a trademark of Binti Marvels Ltd a company geared towards providing menstrual solutions to women in Kenya and Africa with the goal of reducing period poverty, shame and stigma. Being a woman, I struggled a lot with the brands that Africa was getting as alternatives to sanitary pads and I was looking for a solution where as women in Africa we could get a very high quality pad at an affordable price. What was in the market was high quality, high price or very low quality, low price. So, me and my co-founder saw the need to come together and provide a solution that would be very affordable but offer high quality.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

I am very ambitious, resilient and those two qualities give me strength even when i am at my worst and feeling down.
A great skill or knowledge i have acquired must be in the aviation industry.. its a fast paced industry with a high risk since we would fly to war zone areas and the problem solving skill was heavily required..

Find your purpose, find joy in what you want to do first, it will be alot easier to deal with challenges when you love what you do..
find courage to keep holding on, to encounter situations and facing them head on..

Dont be afraid to try, and most of all keep at it until it works.

One of our goals is to help like-minded folks with similar goals connect and so before we go we want to ask if you are looking to partner or collab with others – and if so, what would make the ideal collaborator or partner?

I am looking for passionate and driven individuals or organizations that support ending of period shame,stigma and poverty in the society esp in Africa.
I am in the space of providing Menstrual Health solutions from education to quality menstrual products.. Sanitary pads. Etc.

There is such a huge gap of access of products aswell.. so Anyone who can come and help in monetary or expertise and strategy on how to make this happen( we are doing it in our small way). So far we have impacted 400,000 women since the inception of Binti Marvels LtD in 2022 and tagret is 1,Million women by year 2025.

They can reach me through my email – [email protected] or Our website – Bintimarvels.com out social media pages BintipadsKe

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Lorna Joyce CEO and Co Founder Binti Pads

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