Popular singer, entrepreneur, and women’s right activist Akothee has come to the aid of a teenage girl from Migori County whose mother’s lack of school fees led her to contemplate suicide.
Lizzy Naomy Ochieng’s video went viral after she was recorded standing right next to their dilapidated village mud-thatched house as she narrated her school fees woes and how her predicament had disturbed her to a point of attempting to take away her own life.
The video, which made rounds on social media circles, caught the attention of singer Akothee who contacted the family, visited the mother, and made plans to have the girl admitted to school with immediate effect.
Miss Naomy Ochieng had sat her KCPE at Lwanda Konyuna Primary School in Uriri, Migori County and scored an impressive 356 marks.
She would then receive a calling letter from Ambassador Pamela Mboya High School but her mother’s financial status impeded her dream of joining the prestigious school.
Bogged down by thoughts, Naomy entertained suicidal thoughts especially after seeing her classmates getting enrolled to various high schools.
“I watched the video and I was deeply touched. I’m a mother of three girls myself, who just recently left teenagehood. Seeing this girl make that video, and explain herself like that moved me and I immediately knew I had to do something,” Akothee says.
Through her eponymous foundation, Akothee made plans to visit the family and eventually partnered with the Ambassador Pamela Mboya High School principal Mrs Margaret Temesi with whom she joined hands to help Naomy achieve her dreams.
“The kind principal offered to buy the girl her full school uniform and also provided her with the shopping required to join form one,” she said.
The Akothee Foundation has now paid the entire Form One school fees and has promised to look into the other years’ fees while at the same time pledging to send free sanitary towels to the school each month.
Thousands of pupils have been unable to join form one due to their families’ financial constraints forcing political leaders, business people, corporates and other good-hearted Kenyans to step in and save the day.
