Girl regains hope after securing scholarship

Days after People Daily highlighted the plight of Sarah Khanari (pictured), a 16-year-old needy pupil from Mariani village in Gatundu North who has been working in tea farms because of lack of school fees, she can now heave a sigh of relief after a well-wisher came to her rescue.

The girl who scored 299 marks in last year’s KCPE has been working as a casual labourer in tea farms within the village together with her mother hoping to raise school fees required for her to join Form One.

A dejected Khanari said she had sleepless nights and emotional days while picking tea as her peers were in classroom studying.

Acute poverty had seen her mother rent a single-roomed house where she was living with her three siblings.

The family was unable to raise Sh600 for rent especially when they fail to secure menial jobs in the village.

However, the agonising sleepless nights came to an end when a well-wisher came to her rescue and paid her four-year school fees at Our Lady of Fatima Kiriko Girls’ Secondary School and promised to walk with her through her education journey until she realises her dreams.

Kenneth Wamburu, who is the proprietor of Imara Lands Investment Ltd told journalists the girl’s setbacks touched him when he read about the girl’s plight on K24 Digital platform.