This Week’s Big News: Emotions Run High as 12 Grade 10 Students Helped to Enter High School

• After the KJSEA results were released, a total of 800,000 students were left stranded at home while their peers thronged to school, looking dapper in their new uniforms
• A total of 12 students who presented their problem to Nairobi governor Johnson Sakaja were given scholarships to help them join various secondary schools
• Ian Godfrey and his mother, Rehema, shed tears of joy after being rejected for admission to Republic Boys’ High School

The second last week of January was very sweet, as many students were left wasting time at home and helping with homework, while their peers with school fees and school needs went to school.

However, many of them received help from well-wishers; below are some of the stories that touched the hearts of many this week.

1. Entering Grade 10: Emotions run high as 12 Grade 10 students are helped to enter Secondary

The results of the first KJSEA exams were released and many parents could not pay their fees for their children to go to high school. In the end, people of good will saved the day.

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Some parents had to face a double problem, as their students were placed in schools they did not want. After dealing with the situation, they also had to raise taxes and money for expensive needs.

About 12 students from Nairobi who could not pay their fees were helped by the Governor Johnsonwho paid their taxes and also gave them money to buy.

2. Grade 10: A mother in Nairobi takes her daughter to school by plane, uploads a video

A Nairobi mother, identified as Adhiambo Oguna, made her daughter’s Grade 10 admission unforgettable by sending her to her local secondary school Poisonous instead of using road transport.

According to Adhiambo, she had been struggling for many years and often missed school fees and food while raising her daughter alone. He said the struggle made the girl grow up fast.

Following her daughter’s success in KJSEA, the loving mother decided to pay for her daughter’s flights to school, and plans to make this act a tradition for all other high schools.

3. KJSEA position: Good Samaritans intervene to help Githurai boy evicted due to lack of rent

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Rehema and her son, Ian Godfrey, were deeply saddened after being denied admission to Jamhuri Boys’ High School, where they had gone with only a box and a blanket.

However, things turned around for the two, and the 12-year-old finally got a place in Grade 10. Generous good Samaritans stepped in to help the boy.

Ian, whose mother is a widow who works as a nanny there Githurai 45, he finally appeared in uniform to the delight of many supporters.

4. A Grade 10 girl who scored 65 points in KJSEA finally joins high school with a full scholarship

A family in Kisii was relieved after their daughter, Grace, was admitted to Grade 10 following weeks of uncertainty about her school fees.

The little girl caught the attention of many people after scoring 65 points in the Kenya Secondary Education Assessment (KJSEA), but she was only helping with homework due to financial constraints.

The bright girl eventually joined a high school in Nairobi on a full scholarship when well-wishers helped her.

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5. Osiany will sponsor a boy who walked to Kanga High School who came with a letter from the former headmaster asking for help

When it became clear that Edwin Mogaka’s mother could not afford his fees to go to Kanga High School, the determined boy went to seek help from his former headmaster, who wrote him a letter.

His single mother had to take care of another child with special needs, so that meant he had to walk to school alone when he needed her comfort and love to pick him up.

The joint efforts of the principal of the primary school, the principal of Kanga High School, politician David Osiany, and his friend Charles Mogaka finally helped the young man join the prestigious school.

A young man who used to use the KQ plane to go back home when schools are closed and open gets an A-

Last week, a Nairobi teenager got an A- in his KCSE results, and his mother revealed that she was booking him a KQ Business Class ticket because she wanted him to pursue a career in aviation.

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Eddy Mutembei, a Meru boy who got an A despite scholarship challenges, said that he aspired to become a software engineer.

An emotional Nairobi mother, identified as Serah Mercy, was overjoyed after her son got a B+ in KCSE and reflected on her struggles as she continues to raise him without anyone’s help.

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