When I graduated in 2009, I got a job with an insurance agency that paid me Sh10, 000 a month. I also started selling handbags and shoes on the side to raise enough money to pay my brothers’ school fees. While his parents and his cousin’s parents pay their school fees, he meets their basic needs and other expenses such as rent and bus fare. “I supported my siblings through primary, secondary school and college, though my parents would sometimes help to pay their school fees. Though it sounds easy in writing, it was anything but – paying his siblings’ college fees demanded dedicated sacrifice.

Source: Daily Nation April 19, 2018 17:37 UTC