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LIGHT AT LAST!
Caro worked hard in primary school and scored 325 Marks out of 500 in her final exam. This was a year ago. As a total orphan and an only child remaining after losing her two siblings while toddlers, Her parents also died and Caro had to move from her paternal home to maternal grandmother. The grandmother who was very poor could not help Caro join High school. She could not raise the school fees. The girl had no option other than working as a casual laborer in their village to help put food on the table.
In June 2018, Caro traveled to Nairobi to look for house girl’s work. Though she succeeded in finding work, life was not easy for her as the lady of the house mistreated her. Caro was later chased out of the house at night. She met with a woman who housed her for that night and the following day she was taken to a police station where TKW team met her.
TKW team reunited Caro with her aunt who was happy to host her and had a desire to see her niece rejoin school. Though she had no help at that moment Caro stayed at home as the family looked for ways to help her join high school in 2019. In January 3rd 2019, Caro’s aunt informed the team that Caro had joined school through the help of their Church.
She is now in Form one at a girls’ boarding school.
LIVING HER DREAM...
Suzy’s aunt, took the responsibility of educating her. She enrolled her in a rural boarding primary school and through a sponsor paid for her school fees. When she completed class 8, she scored 295 Marks. The sponsor could not pay for her high school fees and the aunt who is unemployed could not do so either. In the plan to help herself, Suzy ended up on the streets in such of better life.
The team met her and during relating, a tracing of her home was done on phone. She wanted to go to her grandmother and thus was reintegrated. Suzy expressed her desires of becoming the best hair dresser but had no one to enroll her into the course and paying her school fees. the team encouraged the family to try their best to see Suzy in vocational training.
When the team visited her in January 2019, they were happy to discover that she joined a hairdressing course at the local community Polytechnic. Suzy is now pursuing her dream. she had braided peoples hair during the holiday and this enabled her to pay part of her fees securing an admission into the Polytechnic. What a zeal!
THROUGH THICK AND THIN
Linda* is the second born in a family of four children. Her mother, a single lady and does casual labor to sustain their family. They live with Linda’s grandmother.
Her grandmother is unmarried and living in her own home. However she gave birth to Linda’s mother and her siblings out of wedlock; Now, Linda’s mother also unmarried lives with her mother with her children in the same house.
Linda* was rescued by police from the streets from what was seen as a child who had been lost. They were on their way to school with the mother and as they were closing the busy roads in the city, Linda was left on one side by the mother who proceeded with their journey on the busy streets without knowing the child was not behind. We met Linda at a police children’s desk and accompanied her home.
Linda’s mother narrated to the team how she went back to look for her daughter in vain. She went back home a distraught mother; but rejoiced when TKW team brought the girl back. Linda is at home but still struggling with school fees. This term alone (Term 1) she needs Kshs 20, 500. The mother is trying to raise it and she needs our support
