Winnie Odhiambo 17, during the interview at Nation Centre on Wednesday. PHOTO | HILARY KIMUYUWhile hundreds of students were escorted by their parents and guardians to report back to school last week 17-year-old Winnie Odhiambo had just been evicted from her home a week earlier. The Nyamira Girls School student, has been forced to seek shelter at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) where her mother has been admitted since June. Ms Odhiambo’s mother is currently in intensive care unit (ICU) and can neither speak nor open her eyes, she said. The girl narrated how she was forced to sell her mother’s little belongings to raise fare for her younger sister to travel to their rural home in Ugenya to live with a neighbour.

Source: Daily Nation October 21, 2020 11:03 UTC