A 16-year-old boy from Kapsaos Village in Aldai Constituency in Nandi who sat for his Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exams has seen his future blurred following abject poverty in his family which has paralysed his plans of joining form one
Amon Kibiwot did his KCPE examinations at Toretmoi Primary School and scored 393 marks.
"Despite many challenges my parents are going through, I managed to get good marks in KCPE, but I have reported to Secondary School due to lack of school fees, and I pray to God to open ways for me as He did during my schooling and examinations," Kibiwot said.
Kibiwot has not joined Kabianga Boys High School in Kericho County where he secured admission since his parents Silla Serem and Sally Serem; peasant farmers in Aldai are wallowing in poverty and cannot afford school fees.
"My husband is jobless. I'm also jobless. We don't have any means to take our child to school," Sally narrated to K24 Digital.
Kibiwot, who aspires to be a pilot says the marks he attained were as a result of the good working relationship between the education stakeholders and saying he struggled to achieve the marks despite the fact that his parents were impoverished.
"This boy has been working hard. He wants to be a pilot. I can't afford to pay school fees leave alone shopping, I'm a blacksmith who earns peasants with one of my hands partially paralysed," the child's father Silla Serem, said.
Kibiwot's parents have called on the government and well-wishers to chip in and help their son realise his dream of becoming a pilot.