I met Beatrice in Nairobi about ten years ago. I was working in a hotel. She was doing mama fua work, washing clothes for people. Life was not big, but we were happy. We fell in love, married, and started our small family with big dreams.
In 2016 my wife became pregnant with our first child, our son Michael Njuguna. Instead of joy, trouble started. I lost my hotel job suddenly. We used all our savings — only KSh 16,000 — to start a small business. We believed it would grow. It did not. It struggled and finally fell when our baby was about two years old. Drama started when my wife decided to…CONTINUE READING