Boy, 12, abandons school to take care of siblings and a sick mother

Brian Kiplagat, a grade four pupil, his six-year-old brother and four-year-old sister inside their makeshift kitchen at their rented house at Kapsowar,Elgeyo Marakwet County. [Christopher Kipsang, Standard]

Ordinarily, Brian Kemboi, a Grade Four pupil, would be focusing on school matters, but that is not the case.

When schools partially reopened amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the 12-year-old was juggling between taking care of his two younger siblings and visiting Kapsowar Mission Hospital to check on his ailing mother.