Nairobi, April 8 -- It all started when her doctor advised her to add lots of organic vegetables to her diet. Her condition had not improved after taking various supplements and medications. She was diagnosed with anaemia in 2008.

Her lifestyle had seen her develop the blood disorder in which the body doesn't have enough healthy red blood cells or haemoglobin that carries oxygen.

"When I started working and juggling education at the same time, I never had time to eat, and that messed up my diet. I was eating fast foods, which of course was not nutritious. As time went by, I could feel dizzy most of the time until I went to the doctor who told me that my blood levels were low," says Mercy Munene, 37.

But even after she started eating gr...