Lucy Njoki Macharia
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Lucy Njoki Macharia is a community home-based care and community land watchdog from Nanyuki Ward; she is a member of the Likii HIV/AIDS home-based care group and Laikipia Women Development. In 2000, Lucy joined GROOTS Kenya at a time when the HIV/AIDS pandemic was rampant and survivors were stigmatized.
Njoki and other caregivers volunteered to serve the survivors by linking them to health practitioners for medication enrollment and also took an active part in counseling the survivors and their families to give strength to the survivors and eradicate stigma from the family and the community. At the same time, Njoki also became a community land watchdog after realizing that most widows and survivors were being unlawfully disinherited from their lands after their husbands' deaths. Njoki took the initiative to advocate for widows’ land rights in support of GROOTS Kenya, ensuring that no woman was denied her land rights as a result of harsh patriarchal cultural beliefs. She is a budget champion, lobbying and advocating for transformative leadership while addressing issues of adaptation and mitigation methods of climate change.
As a champion, she has represented GROOTS Kenya as a Movement Building Mentor in India, Uganda, Zambia, and Ethiopia. In 2016, Njoki attended the Women to Kilimanjaro Initiative event in Tanzania, which sought to afford women space to engage and seek accountability from decision-makers at the national and continental level, to secure fundamental, irreversible shifts and commitments on women’s land and property rights.
