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Family to enjoy Christmas for the first time in nine years

From left, Michele Jepng’etich 3, Collins Kemboi 9, Brian Kemboi at Kapsowar village in Elgeyo Marakwet County after receiving donation from well-wishers on December 2, 2020. [Peter Ochieng, Standard]

Brian Kemboi, a Grade Four pupil, has been fending for his siblings and ailing mother after their father walked out.

The family has been living in abject poverty, in a makeshift structure under a tree as their home at Sitat village on the fringes of Embobut forest, Elgeyo-Marakwet County.

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