The legacy of former Kenyan politician and businessman Nicholas Kipyator Kiprono Arap Biwott is being kept well by his children.
One of the late Biwott’s highly accomplished and respected children is his daughter Rita Field‑Marsham.
Rita is the daughter of the late Kenyan politician Nicholas Biwott and his Dutch wife, Johanna.
Despite being born to a Dutch mother, Rita grew up in Kenya but studied abroad. She attended McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where she met her husband, Charles Field‑Marsham.
Rita is a lawyer by training, and in Kenya, she has worked as a prosecuting counsel in the State Law Office.
She also worked in private practice, where she ended up founding Field‑Marsham & Co. Advocates.
Together with her husband, they are the co-founders of the Charles & Rita Field-Marsham Foundation.
Adding more to her contributions, she is on the board of the Kenya Scholar Access Program (KenSAP).
This foundation helps high-achieving but disadvantaged Kenyan students access scholarships to top universities abroad.
She is also a governor and board member at the M-Pesa Foundation Academy.
Through her foundation, she’s supported health programmes; for example, in partnership with Amref Health Africa, the foundation supported the training of community health workers in Kenya.
After her father, Nicholas Biwott, died (2017), he left a will dividing his estate into 14 parts, naming Rita as one of the beneficiaries.
However, what stunned many is that Rita formally declined her share of the inheritance. She asked that her portion be redistributed to her remaining siblings.
Rita is married to Charles Field‑Marsham, a Canadian entrepreneur. They lived in Kenya for a number of years, especially during Charles’s business-building period, but later moved to Toronto, Canada.
Together with Charles, she is deeply involved in philanthropic work through their foundation that has supported many less privileged children.
By Newshub