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It was all smiles for a needy, bright boy who risked losing his slot at the Lenana High School despite excelling with 384 marks in last year's KCPE exams after several well-wishers and neighbors on Monday came to his rescue and paid his fees.
Joseph Musee, a former pupil of Mwamba Isyuko Primary School in Kitui South, was overwhelmed by joy after people of goodwill contributed over Sh.80,000 to cater for his form one’s fees and shopping.
Musee, 14, narrated how his family’s inability to raise the fees almost shattered his dream of becoming an accountant in future.
He said he was on the brink of forfeiting his chance to join the coveted secondary school, adding that he even contemplated becoming a casual laborer in the streets of Kitui town to raise his school fees and later join one of the nearby day schools.
“May God bless all my neighbors and well-wishers for coming to my aid and rekindling my dream. I promise to work hard and become a top-notch accountant so that I can also touch the lives of needy learners in future,” said an elated Musee.
His mother, Mrs. Maria Wambua, a security guard in Kitui Town, intimated to journalists that the family was completely unable to raise fees for their kin owing to their meager earnings.
She revealed that she had even advised her son to undertake construction jobs so as to raise his school fees because the family was already overwhelmed by the burden of paying fees for his elder sister, a student at Mulango Girls’ High School.
The father, Raphael Wambua, who works as a cook at a nearby primary school, could hardly contain his joy after his son was assured of fulfilling his dream to join a secondary school.
Mr. Wambua, who described his son as an intelligent, hardworking and disciplined child, thanked the well-wishers for mobilizing financial aid for his needy but promising son