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The dream of a 14-year-old girl of becoming a surgeon in future has been dimmed by lack of school fees. Mediatrix Ngai has now opted to become a house help. Her mother’s efforts to beg Chepterit Girls High School in Nandi County to admit her and let her pay the school fees in bits were rejected.
Mediatrix, who scored 401 marks in last year’s Kenya Certificate of Primary Education at Musoli Primary School in Ikolomani constituency, was turned away on reporting day, despite having deposited Sh10,000 in the school account.
Mediatrix is being raised by a single mother, who is a house help in Nairobi’s Upper-Hill estate and can’t raise the required Sh53,554 fees.
In an interview with The Standard, the student claimed her mother tried negotiating with the principal on modalities of raising the balance, but all was in vain.
Mediatrix, who wants to be a surgeon in future but has now joined her mother in doing menial jobs in homes, is calling upon any sponsors to help her go back to school and realise her dreams.
Her mother, Alice Odongo says that she normally moves from one house to another in Upper Hill estate in Nairobi, looking for menial jobs to do, such as washing clothes.
On the day she’s lucky to get work, she makes between Sh150 and Sh200, which she says is just for survival and cannot enable her raise school fees for her daughter.
Ms Odongo said the man with whom she sired Mediatrix vanished the moment she announced she was pregnant. To help, reach Alice on 0701010211.
Single mum elopes, abandons boy, he scored 406
Yet another needy case is that of Allan Njuguna. A child of a single mother, Alice Njoki, who eloped with her lover four years ago, abandoning young Allan by himself in the streets of Nakuru Town.
The then 13-year-old was forced to drop from school in Standard six, before finding his way to the streets of Nairobi, where a Good Samaritan helped him join Kangema Primary Boarding School in Kiambu County.
He scored 406 marks and due to lack of school fees, he can’t join high school and now lives with a Good Samaritan - even as he searches for his mother - in Mombasa after he (the Good Samaritan) picked him from the streets there. To assist, reach our writer Ishaq Jumbe 0723162200.
Orphan who scored 390 desperate for fees
When her mother, Everline Kanga died in 2011, Samantha Faith Achieng was only nine years old and in class five. Achieng, who was born out of wedlock and has never met her father, dropped out of school and was later taken in by an aunt, Caren Atieno Kanga based in Kolwa East, Kisumu County.
Courtesy of a school head, Peter Okoth, the girl was admitted at Joel Omino Primary School in Nyalenda in class six, where she competed her studies, scoring 390 marks out of a possible 500.
Okoth, who helped her secure a scholarship and join Asumbi Girls High School in Homa Bay County is now asking well-wishers to come to her aid, after she dropped out, again. The first well-wisher could only afford one year’s fees for the girl, who says she would like to be a doctor.
Okoth’s contact is 0729858960. Caren’s is 0727030367.
