A father of seventeen has defied all odds and made history by ensuring children who could hardly get education got it under his personal initiative.
James Kemeto a standard eight dropout who has managed to start a school inside the Amboseli National Park said that he saw a gap in the community and he was forced to act because to him he thought that the government had ignored his community by not building a school in the area denying a good number of children their right to education.
According to him when he was young his family was often helped because it was poor. He said that it was through that act of being helped that made him to nature a heart desire of helping other people the way he was helped as a way of giving back to the community.
Kemeto said that his well-wisher died before he finished school that is why he dropped out of school in class eight. The 46-year-old father of seventeen said that it is his job of being an assistant tour guide that helped him to approach one of the tourists who promised to offer him help in building a school in Esiteti village deep inside the Amboseli National Park.
“A talked to a tourist who gave me a hundred Dollars that I used to start the school.He helped open an account and using that money helped me to buy books and pay that teacher I had hired.The kids used to learn under a tree and upon reaching class three I transferred them to a nearby school,” said Kemeto.
Terry Gabrielsen a sponsor of Estiteti primary school said that he was inspired by Kemeto urge to see children get educated whereas himself was not educated.
