I want to tell the life story of Gladys. She is a mother whom I have known for years and I want to tell her story as an example of how hard life is here.
Gladys was born 37 years ago in the implacable Turkana District where the population is plagued by drought and lack of food and is in dire want of health care and education.

Her first child, Alex, was born when she was 17 years old and had come to Kitale to seek work. She started working on the farm around 1995. Her second child, Meshak, was severely physically disabled, probably due to lack of oxygen during birth. Her third child was a girl, Winnie, followed by Joshua and Evelyne. All these children had the same father, who tragically died of tuberculosis. She thereafter had another child, Lilian, whose father unfortunately is nowhere to be found.

Meshak has been sponsored for many years  by SOK, enabling him to live in a home for physically disabled children in Endebess, where he is doing fine.

Unfortunately, Joshua contracted meningitis at the age of 2, causing him to become blind and deaf and paralyzed. Furthermore, he had severe brain damage.