Poverty is humiliating don't start a family you cannot look after

Case study: a middle-aged woman, doing quite well for herself, well-travelled, living a life many aspire to, on the outside looking very happy with life. She was not always well-off. What she had was a poverty-ridden upbringing, what Kenyans love to refer to as humble beginnings (I keep thinking that Kenyans have no idea what the word humble means. There is nothing humble about poverty).

If well-wishers had not come through for her and her family, she would most likely be a statistic in the 'vicious cycle of poverty data', because, more often than not, when a girl-child has her education stopped for whatever reason, she gets married, which unfortunately adds fuel to the wheel of poverty, because, contrary to popular belief that problems are halved when two adults get together, poverty worsens in marriage.