Apart from knocking other boxers in the ring, Fatuma Zarika is also a caring mother. The super bantamweight champion is a mother of two girls.
Fatuma is the first Kenyan to ever win a World Boxing Council (WBC) global title. She outclassed Zambian Catherine Phiri to retain her title in a tight fight at Carnivore grounds on December 2nd 2017.
Fighting aside, Fatuma is a mother of two grown girls. Her first daughter Sophia Vuteme Zarika is 20 years old while her younger daughter Halima Zarika a form four student at Emmaus Secondary School in Embakasi.
She is a father and mother to us
Fatima Zarika raised her two beautiful daughters as a single mother. She is a typical mother contrary to what anyone would think of boxers.
“My mother is everything to us, but I will definitely say she is hardworking and brilliant. She has been a father and mother to me and my sister and I can’t say more. she is ambitious, funny, forgiving, generous and a good leader,” Sophia Zarika said in an interview with People Daily.
Sophia says that her mother is a very simple woman at home. She reveals that Zarika does all chores at home and even has time for them despite her busy schedule.
“It is simple when it comes to my mother. She has two different shades that people don’t know about. At home she does chores, cooks, plays around with us and something about her always brings our family together,” said Sophia.