By Anande Mirisho | Managing Director
Meet Hosiana
Hosiana is a girl who is very talented in handwork; she plaits hair and earns money that way to support herself. She is 24 years old and she comes from a part of Maasai-land called Oldonyo Sambu. She went to a traditional local secondary school in her village but she failed her exams. Her tribe has a very strong culture that believes that women can not do the same things that men do. Both of her parents are still alive and they are peasants, tending animals as a way of subsistence living. She is the 5th child among 6, 5 girls and a boy. Only two girls among all of the children in her family attended secondary school and all are married except her.
Her sister is a primary school teacher and she is the one who encouraged Hosiana to continue looking for an education. Her struggles in the village after finishing secondary school made her find an alternative to continue with education. When she completed secondary school and failed, her father told her that because her younger sister was already married, he thought that its time for Hosiana to marry as well. She was only 19 years old.
She met a friend who knew of Jifundishe in 2013 and she was told that she can come to join for free to continue with studies independently. So joined Jifundishe in 2014 and is currently studying in the Independent Study program.
Her educational journey with Jifundishe since 2014 has gone well; she sat for her secondary exam twice and got enough credit to continue with advanced classes. Now she will be doing Advanced level exam in May of 2018. Her ambition is to become a teacher.
Hosiana is just one of the hundreds of young people who have come to our program when parents, step-parents and other family members have stopped supporting their ambitions because of traditional beliefs that no longer work in this modern world.
We are proud of Hosiana and she is an example for other girls in the village that they can get an education if it is what they want. We wish her much luck on her Form 6 exam next month!
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