From school dropout to orphan to streetboy and finally graduate

Alex Mwaura. His family was poor, he lost his mother in 2018 but against all odds is now a graduate. [Courtesy, Standard]

I was born in February 2000 as the fourth child in a family of six.

We were raised by a single mother. Poverty was a constant companion during my formative years, and our life resembled the nomads' as we moved from place to place.