Musembi didn’t have to fight to be a man! He needed to know when to hold up and when to walk away.
Category Archives: Children and Teens
Fighting HIV from Home Front to the Global Stage
Orphaned and impoverished by HIV didn’t give him a right to playing the victim. Rather, he was triggered to work his brawn and brain.
His quest for HIV answers isn’t quenched, yet.
Jail-time: Not A Way of Solving Neighbors’ Disputes
Should children inherit hatred?
Moraa and Mueni fought at every trigger and eventually sucked in their children to the madness!
Child Suicide, A Society’s Concern
Why are children taking their lives? Is it substance abuse, gambling, Exams or COVID-induced stress?
Helping Children Cope with Grief
Grief is hard, even for children . Check my feature published on the People Daily, on August 11, 2021. You can download and share a pdf version of the story below. pdf – Helping children to cope with grief – People Daily August 11, 2021Download
Baba Macharia: The Man Who Quit His Job to Sell Cabbages and Never Looked Back
Baba Macharia quit his job, set up a cabbage stall in Mombasa, and never looked back.
He built his life from that singular action.
In March 2021, our village saluted him and his wife for 40+ years of friendship and raising a generation.
#NapigaSaluti, #Enterpreneurship
Plight of the Pregnant Teenager
Mutheu, a teenage girl suffers repeated sexual exploitation by an uncle, ending up HIV+ and pregnant.
Plight of the Child with Multiple Disabilities
Raising a paraplegic child
Plight of the Girl with a Twisted Future
Facebook link and LinkedIn link, published on April 12, 2016 If you studied ‘Looking for a Rain God’ as a set book in high school (in Kenya), you may recall one of the short stories with the title ‘The Girl With A Twisted Future’, by Mia Couto of Mozambique. It was a prose fiction thatContinueContinue reading “Plight of the Girl with a Twisted Future”
Plight of the Distraught Child (2)
Facebook link, published on November 6, 2015 On a cool morning, Shantel was typing (rather swiping) away her life on her newly acquired Smartphone. It was her mom’s gadget-gift as had been promised when she completes her high school studies. She was on the co-driver’s seat while her mom drove to work, while trying toContinueContinue reading “Plight of the Distraught Child (2)”