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Uzalendo school in Eldama Ravine,Baringo county on February 15,2019. The school was started through Eldama Ravine Education Foundation-a fund to support brilliant but needy students from the society. [Kipsang Joseph/Standard]
When Audrey Chepkemoi scored 329 marks in the KCPE exam of 2016, she was elated. But the joy soon fizzled out when it dawned on her that she would not afford to join Talai Secondary School in Baringo where she had got admission.
Her parents had separated much earlier and Audrey and her three siblings only lived with relatives who also could not afford her secondary education.
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