The Spouse of the Deputy President, Pastor Dorcas Rigathi yesterday visited her former high school, Alliance Girls in Kikuyu, Kiambu County where she joined the girls who studied in the school in the 80s for a meeting and Sunday worship.

The girls shared with nostalgia their different past experiences as young girls at the institution. Pastor Dorcas told of how she almost missed joining secondary school because of lack of school fees, but through the intervention of an administrator (DC) she was able to join the Alliance Girls School.

“I was brought here by DC Thuo Kibathi because, I did not have school fees. But someone came to my aid,” she said. Pastor Dorcas offered to pay school fees to two needy students from the school up to the highest level of education they would wish to attain.
Sweet potatoes
“Coming from Kiandutu slums in Thika, and joining the Alliance Girls was nothing short of a miracle. I am a testimony that God can pick you from nothing to something. Never ever give up,” she told the 2206 students gathered at the chapel.
She said they came from an obscure single-led household, by a widow, who gave her best to see her children through school.
“We used to carry sweet potatoes and nduma (arrowroots), in our metal boxes while others carried cakes and other snacks.
However, this school treated everyone the same. When it came to games, we went together as sisters and friends, and whether you came with cakes or not, we would happily share,” she said.
In the 1980s, those who could afford cakes and other refined snacks were from affluent families.
Pastor Dorcas has shared the story of her humble upbringing in different public forums, to encourage people that they can rise from ‘nothing’ and become something.