At the height of Covid-19 in 2020, Sylvia Jebet Kipkemoi, a graduate of Bachelor of Science in Telecommunication and Information Engineering from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), was stuck in the village.

This was after all learning institutions were closed following the lockdown that resulted from the pandemic. A third-year student at the time, Jebet retreated to her village to take up some farm work, as the uncertainties presented by the pandemic unfolded.

At the university, she was a member of an engineering club, where she was in charge of the club’s publicity. Jebet, in an interview with Enterprise, said they relied a lot on keeping in touch through printed stuff like fliers, which the pandemic now restricted.

As Covid deaths became a reality, she began scouting for other means of communication with her club members before they opted to form a WhatsApp group during the lockdown.

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