Hope, told in their own words.

Agnes is a total orphan from the rural village of Igare in Kisii County. As a young girl she watched her mother slip into mental illness and saw her father — the parent who had carried the family alone — collapse and die on the path home from fetching water. Within two years she had lost both parents.

Her father had always said education was the only inheritance he could give. That promise found its way to Mum Roselyne Oddah, who had quietly been supporting Agnes's elder brother. Roselyne stepped in, paid Agnes's school fees, and gave her something she hadn't felt in years — comfort.

Agnes went on to score 399 marks in KCPE, earned a place at Nyabururu Girls National School, and later sat her KCSE with a B. Today she stands not just as a survivor, but as someone determined to rise — and still writing her story.

Born in 2001, Steward's world was shattered in 2010 when his father — his only parent — was brutally murdered. His biological mother had never been present, and the loss of both parents left a pain words cannot fully explain.

His aunt Rose, the second-born of the family, became his everything. She took Steward and his brother Kelvin in as her own, sent them to school alongside her sons Tarryl and Tevin, and carried responsibilities that were never meant for her — with love, strength, and grace.

Steward later joined Chavakali National High School and went on to pursue Kitchen Operations at Utalii College. After surviving the upheaval of COVID-19 with roles in security marketing and outside catering, he is now striving to secure an overseas job opportunity — not just for himself, but for the people who stood with him when he had nothing.