Fridah Nyamwega, 24, is from Sengera Bosotii Ward in Bomachoge Chache Constituency. She liked teaching and chose to enrol at the Kenyanya Teachers Training College (TTC) for a Diploma in Primary Education. However, her professional dreams might be shattered unless she can find some well-wishers to help her complete the course.
Speaking to Education News at her home, she narrated how her widowed mother sold their piece of shamba to enable her to pay her college fees.
“Apart from that, I have been depending on relatives and friends who helped me with some money to continue with my education as I walked on people’s during the holiday to raise money,” she said.
Now she fears she will not be allowed to go for a teaching attachment in January for her final course due to unpaid college fees.
She said she owes college fees arrears totalling Shillings 145,000, which must be paid before the college allows her to proceed with her vital teaching attachment.
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The worried teacher trainee explained how she had been applying for the Ward education bursary fund allocation, but without any success.
She appealed to her Sengera Bosoti Ward MCA, Peter Okerio, to hear her cry and help her clear the fees.
Her widowed mother, Rebecca Nyamwega, said she has been sick for a long time and has spent family resources on her treatment and fending off her other children.
“I have been crippled and weakened by this prolonged sickness and can not work to help my children. I beg my area MP Alpa Miruka and Governor Simba Arati, or any well-wisher, to help my daughter complete her College course and be a pillar for her siblings,” she said.
Nyamwega gave her M-PESA phone number, 0708310012, for anyone to channel the money there for compassionate help.
By Enock Okongó
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