Patricia Motivo Heartbroken Post Over Missing Rhodes Scholarship After Shortlisted in The Final 8

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By Festus Conteh Published December 26, 2022 142 Views 3 Min Read

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Patricia Motivo a Kenyan lady who was involved in a gruesome accident 10 years ago has taken to social media to make her dissatifaction known over her failure to secure Rhodes Scholarship after making it to final 8.

In her post, she disclosed that much has already been endure for someone with disability she could only imagine how this will torture her even more. “One thing that I’ve been finding it hard to talk about is my achievement as one of the top 8 Rhodes scholarship finalists from Kenya for this year.
It’s the thought of missing Oxford university with an inch that broke me so, so bad and actually what this would have meant to persons w/ disabilities”

This post has invited a lot of comments on Linkedin in which some of her friends asking her to take it easy with herself that everything is going to be okay.

Patricia is a Season 2 Ms President finalist representing Nairobi County. She is currently the Vice Chair of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Youth Advisory Panel. She is currently the Kenyan champion of the South-South HIV Prevention Learning Network(Phase II), She is the former Kenya country director of the Global Youth Consortium towards eliminating FGM. Patricia is a certified Disability Inclusion Facilitator(DIF). She is an advocate of Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights where is an ambassador of different organizations such as Y+Tausi taskforce and Inua Dada Foundation, and a champion of POLICARE, an initiative by the Kenyan National police service to act independently on matters of SGBV.

Patricia is a former Brand Ambassador of Riziki Source, an organization that facilitates employment for persons with disabilities. She is very passionate about leadership where she is the former campus director of Hult Prize Multimedia University of Kenya 2020/2021, also, the former Secretary for Special needs, social welfare, Health & Environment in Multimedia University, students union. Patricia is a former CPO for Virdismart Global, a startup that made it to the Hult prize castle accelerator pitching a solution to fight food fraud. Patricia is a motivational speaker, an environmentalist and a mental health advocate . She is a panel moderator. She supports humanitarian activities and is a passionate volunteer. She is also an athlete where she plays in the Wheelchair Tennis Kenyan team .
Patricia is an Alumni of the EmployAble program by future makers in 2021 and also a graduate from Multimedia university of Kenya (2021) with a Bachelor’s degree in Analytical Chemistry, First Class Honors, making her part of the smallest fraction of young women with disabilities to have graduated in STEM.