Needy but bright Boy resort to survive at Kachok dumpsite for lack of school fees

 James Owino Onyango who did his KCPE 2019 at Anyiko Primary school is at Kachok dumpsite in Kisumu where he survives because he lacks school fees to join St Mary's Yala in Siaya County-Photo By David Opiyo.

By Dickson Odhiambo

   

 February 6, 2020

Needy but bright Boy resort to survive at Kachok dumpsite for lack of school fees

A CLASS Eight candidate in last Year’s Kenya Certificate of Primary Education is a helpless child and has resorted to surviving at the infamous Kachok dumpsite in Kisumu after not joining a secondary school due to lack of school fee.

James Owino Onyango who did his KCPE at Anyiko Primary school within Gem Sub-County in Siaya County says he scored 312 marks in the 2019 KCPE and has been offered a chance to join Saint Mary’s Yala School but has never join secondary school because he can’t afford school fees.

Addressing the press who visited him at Kachok dumpsite where he has joined his brother, Owino who has joined his brother at the site says he is still willing to join secondary school should any well-wisher be willing to pay his secondary school fees.

He normally visit the site to look for empty plastic bottles which he cleans and then sell for survival.

He says both his parents are still alive but they are poor and cannot afford to take him to school, adding  that he is willing to join any secondary school so long as he can receive support to go on with education.

“I am very much ready to join secondary school any time should I get school fees and other items needed for me to learn and I know I will surely make it without disappointing my sponsor,” he says.

Fred Omondi who is his brother says he is the one who has been supporting his brother through primary education.

“I am the one who has been a bread winner in our family because my mother is at home where she is with other siblings and I have been supporting them including my brother who has now joined me here at Kachok dumpsite where we collect some plastic bottles which we clean and sale for survival,” Omondi says.

Omondi says sometimes he also resort to seeking jobs at construction sites to supplement what he does at Kachok dumpsite.

He appeals to any well-wisher to come to the aid of his brother whom he has described as a bright but a very needy student who is ready to go to school and learn.

John Orinda, the Kachok dumpsite manager says Omondi came to the dumpsite a few years ago, adding that his brother joined him late last year.

He says Omondi used to stay within the dumpsite but has now moved to Nyalenda area where he now hosts his brother who did KCPE 2019 and scored 312 marks.

Orinda has also appealed to any well-wisher to support the boy to get to secondary school, adding that the needy but bright boy can be reached through him on his cell phone number 0728047809.

The Government through the Ministry of  Education has said that all those who sat for KCPE should join secondary school so as to help in attaining 100 percent transition.

Yesterday, Education Cabinet Secretary visited Kisumu County so as to assess how the 100 percent transition is fairing on.

 

ENDS.