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Hope for needy students as county chips in with annual sponsorship

Joseph Nyambura (second left) after he was awarded a scholarship by Murang’a County Government to study at Kagumo Boys High School in Nyeri. [Boniface Gikandi, Standard]

The future looked bleak for Joseph Ngugi Nyambura even after clinching 370 marks in last year’s KCPE exams.

He lives with his grandmother at the semi-arid Ithanga ward in Murang’a County and is among hundreds of bright students who miss out on sponsorships by established programmes like Equity Bank’s Wings to Fly and other sponsors.

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