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Proceeds from school canteen help student score an A

Kipsis Secondary school students learn from class room corridor on March 15, 2015. The school produced top candidate in in Mt. Elgon last year KCSE results announced recently, besides their challenges they are going through. By Benjamin Sakwa

Bungoma, Kenya : Students and teachers of Kipsis High School are celebrating Mt Elgon's first ever A since the inception of 8-4-4.

Eighteen-year-old Donald Wanyonyi, the second born of five siblings, made history in the school by getting straight As. Having come from a poor background, the school offered to pay his school fees using proceeds from the school canteen because he was bright.

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