Civil Engineering Student Who Sells Food Items to Raise School Fees
23-year-old Civil Engineering student, Casper Chebii sells sausages, cigarretes , boiled eggs from a trolley at at the busy Olive Inn estate bus stop in Nakuru County, Kenya, The third-year student at Rift Valley Institute of Science and Technology has been doing this since July 2017. “I grew up in Baringo and I am the second born in a family of eight,” Chebii says. "Despite financial problems in our family, I scored 351 marks in my Kenya Certificate of Primary Education examination and was admitted to Moi High School Kabartonjo.” Things did not go well for Chebii. He fell sick in third term while in Form Two. He became paralysed but did not want to accept his condition. Chebii dropped out of school in Form Three to seek treatment when his health deteriorated. He says his family was devastated as he had to be taken from one hospital to another. Eventually, he settled for herbal medicines and his condition improved after a year”. “I was alwa...