Relief for a 16-year-old girl who hit headlines after carrying the body of her dead baby for about 5km to a mortuary after officials at a city hospital refused to help her transport it has now gone back to school.
Speaking to Citizen Digital at Daisy School in Bukura, Kakamega County, where she was admitted, Immaculate Auma could not hide her excitement.
The 16-year-old narrated how she was forced to drop out of Anwa Junior Academy, Nairobi, in Standard 7 in January last year after she realised she was expectant.
She further told of how a group of Nairobi women visited their home in Kibera after the death of her then 6-month old son and offered to pay her school fees upon realizing that her parents were unable to.
“I was brought here (school) by a women’s organization of women who asked me what I wanted to do and I chose school so they brought me here,” she said.
The school has promised to give her free boarding expenses while the women body pay the fees.