One of nine children from a Kenyan village where education was not a priority and girls traditionally did not receive any, Zeinab Musa watched each day as her three brothers departed for school and wished that she, too, could go. So determined was she to get an education, Zeinab would sneak out of the house, sit outside the school building, and learn through the windows. After weeks of this, her older brother brought her inside, where, at mid-year, without any books or a school uniform, she began her formal education.