Girl tries to commit suicide after dreams of becoming a journalist get doomed

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It was a sad tragedy when a young lady decided to end her life after failing to join high school due to lack of school fees but was luckily saved by a neighbour.

Before the suicide attempt, she had been camping day-long at her former school’s gate in tears.The school absorbs poor children who fail to get admission in the area public schools.

”I just can’t live to see my mother suffer. She is not even able to give us food let alone education. My dream of becoming a journalist is now doomed,” she said.

Faith Mutheu and her daughter (partly blurred)

“She is a very bright girl and she was one of our best students in the last year standard eight class. I just hope that well-wishers will take up her cause and educate her,” said her former headteacher Dominic Omondi.

The family has appealed to well-wishers for help.

She scored three A’s in Mathematics, Kiswahili and Science.Fourteen-year-old Cynthia Mueni scored 368 marks and secured a place at St Francis Misiani Girls’ High School. She was expected to have reported by mid last week.

In another erlier shocking revelations a mother from Kitui commited suicide due to school pressure from daughter.

The mother of three is said to have taken the decision after her daughter threatened to kill herself if the family didn’t raise money to fund her schooling after she scored 396 marks in the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE).

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