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Wainaina, 79 sits for KCSE after deferring dream for 60 years

Samuel Wainaina, 79 sits for KCSE after deferring dream for 60 year.[Ken Gachuhi/Standard]

Samuel Wainaina, 79, is among hundreds of thousands of candidates who sat for this year’s KCSE examinations, his story standing as a testament to lifelong learning and that no dreams are too far to achieve.

Wainaina was born in Oljororok, Nyandarua, and his journey back to the classroom comes over sixty years later, after poverty denied him a chance to enrol for secondary education.

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