CYNTHIA JEPKOECH
Chebirei High School

Cynthia was born in 2007 to a single mother who had four other children.
To date Cynthia doesn’t know her biological father.

She was enrolled at daylight model in 2019, but dropped out due to lack of fees.
She was forced to join a public school where she sat for her KCPE in 2021.
Cynthia grew up in a hostile environment where her mother drinks and sells traditional alcohol. Her elder siblings have given birth to children at home too and joined their mother in selling alcohol. Cynthia joined a nearby day secondary school after scoring 198 marks in KCPE.

Cynthia lacked all basic necessities including sanitary towels and even decent clothes.
A motor cycle rider took advantage of this poverty and lured her into defilement resulting in pregnancy, the mother tried to have the girl terminate the pregnancy but local health workers came to Cynthia’s rescue the man responsible for the defilement was reported and later on he was jailed. Cynthia eventually delivered a baby boy.

This is a case of a child delivering a baby, we have enrolled Cynthia at Chebirei mixed high school, and this girl is in a day school because she has to go back home during lunch time to breastfeed the baby.

Thanks friends, for coming to Cynthia’s aid a bright future is beckoning for her she will be staying with Mercy during the holiday.