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My bet on Christmas Cartoon.

A young man who passed his KCPE exams but couldn't afford the 53, 000 thousand shillings required for a year in secondary school got a was relieved the burden by good wishes who were moved by his quest for education.

Going by the proverb that says, “Necessity is the mother of invention" the boy thought outside the box and started an improvised Stone Grinding Mill.He was determined to join school and study to become a pilot.His dream looked like a mirage but as we are talking now everything has worked to his favor.


Evidently, his story had made it to the news, seeing as the valiant chap had decided to turn stone into ballast for as long as it would take his feeble hands to raise the said amount.

Through rock-crunching, the boy was ready to pay his high school fees and completed his studies.He also thought of his other hurdle of becoming a pilot as per his dream. He admitted that he knew it was next to an impossibility for him to get all the millions needed for him to join a flying school.

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