Peninah Wangari, a woman from Nyahururu, spent four years working as a househelp in Saudi Arabia with one goal in mind: to give her mother a decent place to live.
Her mother had no stable home, and Peninah resolved to change that even if it meant leaving her family and enduring years of hard labour abroad.
She saved whatever little she could from her wages and gradually put up a stone house back in Kenya.
Peninah moves to Oman
After completing her stint in Saudi Arabia, Peninah moved to Oman, where she continued working as a domestic worker. It was there that her child fell ill.
Distressed and desperate to be with her family, she abandoned her work contract and returned to Kenya.
The money she had carefully set aside to finish the house went instead towards hospital bills.
Peninah’s son dies
Tragically, her child passed away, and the burial took place last week.
Through the support of Ev Mercy Nungari’s page and a Kenyan woman working in Oman who helped facilitate her return, Peninah was able to come home and be with her child in his final days.
When content creator Paxson Chege visited the family home in Nyahururu on November 4, 2026, the visit painted a picture of both remarkable sacrifice and heartbreaking incompletion.
No doors, windows in Peninah’s mum’s house
The stone structure Peninah built stands tall and solid, a testament to years of discipline and determination. But it remains unfinished.
There are no doors, no windows and no iron sheets for the roof.
What struck Paxson’s crew was that Peninah had already purchased doors, tiles and other finishing materials, all sitting unused.
Peninah seeks to travel back to Gulf
She simply does not have enough money to hire a fundi to carry out the installation work.
Peninah is now appealing to Kenyans and well-wishers to help her renew her passport so she can travel back to the Gulf, secure another job and resume supporting her mother.
She says she is deeply worried about her mother’s welfare and determined to see the house through to completion.
