By Martin Ruto
After 21 years of waiting, Ewoi Pkemoi Stephen is proud to have finally sat for the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exams.
He started his early education in North Pokot Sub – County before joining Form 1 at Kamito Secondary School in 1995.
He droped out of school in form three in 1998 after the school failed to register him for the KCSE exams.
“I became a Catechist at the Holy Trinity Girls Secondary School church for the next 21 years, where I was also employed as a security officer,” says Ewoi.
All that time, he still had the burning desire of sitting the KCSE exams and secured the services of private teachers to assist him in his studies.
He the registered for K.C.S.E and scored grade D which he says he is better than the more than thousands of regular students who scored grades D- and E.
Ewoi currently works as an Assistant Librarian at Holy Trinity Girls Secondary School and is also pursuing a secretarial course as a part time student.
He is well known in Riwo zone, West Pokot county as a no nonsense character who has rescued more than 10 girls this year from early marriages and ensured they were taken back to school.
In his other role as the youth chairman, Ewoi ensures that young people are actively engaged in community development.
The father of nine says no single child student will remain at home even if he is physically challenged.
“One of my child Jecinta Chepkemoi is in form 2 at St. Cecilia Girls Secondary School Ywalateke while the third born is at Kacheliba Girls Primary School in class 6,” Ewoi says with a confident smile on his face.
He urges all parents in West Pokot County to take their children to school becauses education opens all gates of success in life.
