When Dorris started Kijiji Link, the critics laughed. “Africans don’t talk about mental health.” “No one will care.” “It’s a waste of time.”
But Dorris didn’t wait for permission. She built it anyway.
She leaned on what she knew—tech, structure, digital tools—and mixed it with stubborn courage. And slowly, something began to shift. Classrooms started holding open conversations. Teachers and students broke silence. Online forums buzzed with stories people had carried quietly for years.
It wasn’t theory anymore. It was real. Real voices. Real lives. Real healing.
What Dorris sparked was bigger than awareness. It was a movement. A rising that could not be silenced, because once people start telling the truth, it spreads.
This is what it means to be Alpha: refusing to shrink, refusing to wait for approval, and daring to create space where silence once ruled.
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