Woman's dream for an education comes true despite early marriage

Winfred Vaati at Meru University where she is a final year student pursuing Bachelor of Education, Science. She got married at the age of 15, bore two children and left abusive marriage to pursue education. [Philip Muasya, Standard]

At only 15 years, young but weighed down by family poverty, Winfred Vaati, now a final year university student, eloped with a man to Taita Taveta County, after he promised to educate her.

She had stayed at home for...