We were so dirt poor, I wore my sister’s pink hand-me-down underwear to school

Peter Liech grew up in such abject poverty that he had to repeat class eight four times for lack of fees. He tells The Nairobian how one man’s faith in him propelled him to the global stage

In 1986, Peter Liech joined secondary school at 19 years of age. So poor was the family that upon joining secondary school, the entire village contributed in cash and kind. But what Liech has never forgotten to date is that he was given his first pair of underwear, pink female panties, a hand-me-down by his elder sister.