Why top KCPE boy has given up on school

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While Sonko’s government is playing with bursaries meant for the bright needy students this is the pain some of the are going through.

Marvin Karimi, who was the top pupil at Giakaibei Primary School with 382 marks in the 2018 KCPE examination, may not join Kenyatta Mahiga High school due to lack of school fees.

Meanwhile Karimi has resorted to picking tea in neighbouring farm for Sh200 per day just for survival.

“I applied for the Equity Group Foundation Wings to Fly scholarship and they even came to our home but I never got it,”His mother Mercy Waruguru said.

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Karimi said he has given up going to school and has opted to help his mother in doing casual labour to help her feed his eight siblings.

His mother said she has exhausted all the means she thought could help her raise Sh 75,000 required for Karimi to join Form One.

Her efforts to seek help from the area MP bore no fruits after she was told the parliamentarian could only help by attending and contributing to a fundraising if she could organize one.

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“I make Sh200 per day which I don’t even manage to save because I have to feed my nine children, and pay fees for the ones in school. How will I be able to organize a fundraising?” she posed.

With the deadline for Form One admission being today, the mother of nine is worried that her son’s dream of becoming a pilot has been cut shot.”At this point, I do not know what else I can do. I have tried my best to get help, but no one wants to help us,” said Ms. Waruguru.

Recently there was sad news broken that a woman committed suicide because the daughter threatened to commit suicide if she would not be taken to school.

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