Orphaned girl who spent nights in lecture halls graduates with Masters Degree

Jespher Nyaboke from Kenya’s village of Kiong’ongi in Nyamira county who lost her mother during child birth has raised eyebrows on social media.

According to reports, her foster mother was so cruel that she kept assaulting her, to the extent that she lost hearing in one of her ears when she was at age 10.

Fearing for her life, Nyaboke thought it prudent to escape from the house to seek refuge wherever she would feel safer.

“I was about 10 when I decided that anywhere, any place, would be better. I ran away from home, boarding a bus to Kisii town. A compassionate stranger spotted me and adopted me. He took me in with his family and began educating me,” she said.

She figured out how to proceed with her essential instruction and continued to Kebabe Girl’s High School and sat for her Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) tests in 2002.

With her certificate, she needed to join up with a nursing preparing school, yet before the adventure to turning into a medical attendant could begin, the watchman who was dealing with her kicked the bucket bafflingly.

She narrated; “I dreamt of becoming a nurse. I admired how they wore spotlessly clean, white coats. Just when I was beginning to map out my dream, the guardian died. It was suspected poisoning. My hopes were dimmed in one stroke of misfortune.”

“When I started my diploma course in Medical Laboratory at MKU Thika Campus in 2009, I used to sleep in class. I am not talking about the occasional dozing off during lectures. Literally using the lecture room as my bedroom. I had no money to pay for accommodation at the hostels, or rent out a room,”

“When the hunger became too much, I opened up to a close friend who took my plight to MKU Students Association Cabinet. The Cabinet wrote to the university Board of Directors Chairman Simon Gicharu who was very sympathetic.”

After school, the university was generous enough to offer her employment at the science laboratories where she worked and raised fund to do her Master’s Degree in the same course

 

 

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