ODM Director of Communications Philip Etale with Grace Awino and her mother at Orange House, January 25, 2018. [Photo|Philip Etale]ODM Director of Communications Philip Etale met Grace Akinyi Awino, a young girl who scored 379 marks in 2017 KCPE and got a letter of admission from Sigoti Girls in Nyakach Sub-County, Kisumu County. She almost took her own life when the mother Marlin, a widow and mother of two failed to raise money to enable her begin her secondary school journey. Her peers started laughing at her forcing her to start thinking suicide. Etale made my donation as promised, bought pens and pencils and issued her with a Holy Bible for spiritual nourishment. He also paid their rent arrears after the landlord locked them out a month ago.During the donation at the Orange House in Nairobi, it emerged that the family had been a burden to a friend who has been accommodating them for the past one month. "I may not have alot but the little that God gives me is what I share with those in need," said Etale on Thursday.

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