Poverty In Poverty

One of the other participant explained poverty in terms of the poor people living in cities. They have insufficiency or poor education. Poor families living in cities do not have a land for gardening. They live in small rented houses in the city where land lords do not allow them to use the land for gardening. They have difficulties how to earn income. They occasionally seek casual labor from neighbors, when no casual labor, they plead for help. Apart from different but almost common views about how participants experienced poverty some particpants shared their lived experience of how poverty affected their journey toward education acquisition. One participant who poverty has crunched him severely, emotionally explained how poverty excluded

The benefactor who was paying my O- level secondary school, said he had no more money for my high school education and that was the end of my education”- He sadly explained. I have another example too, that of a child (name reserved) who passed primary school exam in 1999, he did not go to secondary school because he could not afford the cost. He is now a street vendor (mmachinga).

Similar to that this participant shared his pain regarding the struggle for his education.

When you look at my back ground regarding education is not good at all. Children from rich families who completed form four with me, are beating (wanpiga) tuition for high school preparation. I am home taming my grandfather’s flocks every day from morning to evening, the other morning again. I don’t know what will be my future. Poverty is a problem to me personally because I don’t know what to do.

He continues that “Orphans lack support for education, they remain on the street, they are poor those are youth of my age. They don’t have parents, no money. They stay on the street and engage in crimes with bad

I passed the exam to go to secondary school, but I had no money to go to school. My mother worked hard in casual labor, but she earned less to afford my education. Eventually, I changed my mind, I went to the seminary, and their Fr. M. paid for me the school fees. Once he went to study in Rome, no one was available to support me. Another struggled.

My mother struggled again with all kinds of causal labor, but she could not fulfill the school needs for me, I could not pay the fees. I was forced to leave the seminary, although I liked it so much. I don’t know if God had his hands on me- I went to Nyegina Secondary school another diocesan school. There, everything was tough; I had nothing to support me. I used to borrow a bicycle from Nyegina village and travel home to seek my school needs. You can imagine the distance- When I went home, I appealed to people to give me hundred shillings equivalent to $10 cents by the time. I asked a hundred people intending to collect about 10,000 shillings so that I could pay my school fees, but I never got that