As I was standing at a nearby stage I heard ‘’Thirty bob, thirty bob,’’ the tan-boy said ,   that was root 41 latter we entered to the MATATU all the way from DANDORA to HURUMA, when I reached my stage I gave the tan-boy thirty shillings as he said, ‘’Do you think I eat at your place’’ tan-boy said ‘’I want fifty shillings’’ he added ‘’before I entered you said thirty bob and now you`ve change’’ I said ‘’I don’t care what I said all I want is money ‘’ angrily the tan-boy said.

The passengers tried to explain to him but all in vain, the passengers were surprised by the tan-boys behavior, after a long argument with the tan-boy I decided to add him twenty bob so as to be fifty bob because he was wasting my time

On my way to class I wondered,’’ what if I didn`t have extra money?, He could have swallowed me to his stomach’’, but I thank God because I’m a live and breathing, ‘’the tan-boy who are like this are suppose to be taken action’’ I said to myself, after a while all the passengers alighted from the same and took him to a nearby chief-camp.

The matter was taken to court and the tan-boy was fined, all because of a stupid thing, ’’appreciate the amount that you are supposed to be given,’’ that is my advice to the tan-boy.

We organized a peaceful demonstration to demand back our playing ground and ensure we have somewhere to play and socialize for our development.

After the demonstration the matter was taken to court and later abolish that any structure that foreseen the non existence of playing ground.

Around the country the private developers are grabbing land by bribing the city council, chiefs or ministry of land.

In order to avoid this government should form a land commission to investigate such cases and report so as no corruption in our lovely land of Kenya.  [to minimize land cases]

 The city council should check a field study before handing out licenses and permit to private developers, when all these is accounted I believe land grabbing will be history.

Every land will be rightful belong to right people so on and so fourth.

Unfortunately, she did not know the father to the child, as she had several boyfriends, the one he thought could be the father, refused to take responsibilities of a father.

The day of delivery came, and after going through labor pain, she was lucky to have given birth to a baby boy, though the child was smaller and looked weak.

One Sunday morning, her friend, ’Esther,’ paid her a visit at the Health Centre where she had gone for treatment, it was a great moment for the 2 friends to be in company of each other once again. As they were busy hugging each other, Esther opened up to her friend and said, ’’You are my friend who I trust fully, though it’s bad news,’’ she continued, ‘’I am H.I.V positive,’’ she begun to cry uncontrollably, but her friend had to remain strong to comfort her.

Her friend said to her, ‘’Being HIV positive is not the end of the world if you take the ARVs drugs you will live a healthy life, and continued comforting her till evening.’’                                                                                                                                                            

After two weeks she and her baby were strong enough to go home, the nurse who discharged her explained that, not everyone who was HIV needed ARVs drugs, she told her to keep going for medical checkups to know when she should start taking ARVs, she then told her not to breast-feed her baby   in order to protect him from getting infected, she asked her to buy tinned milk for the baby.

After sometimes she regained some weight and her beauty, no one could tell that she was HIV positive.

Go for the test today, and know your status!

 With time, I started noticing a foul smell that would penetrate inside the house, it was garbage that was lying around uncollected and had already accumulated to a heap, and damaged the drainage system completely.

Photo by Ester Wambui

 People were suffering from malaria as a result of stagnant water that was lying around, cholera and typhoid diseases too. The better off people financially, would make it to hospital to receive medication, what about the poor?

 I looked for all ways and means to find a solution to the problem that was facing the village. I put on a brave face and cleared the heap of rubbish that was lying around, and burnt everything to ashes, the village was able to glow once again and shone brighter.

 Diseases as a result of dirt became a thing of the past and the villagers joined hands, they formed a group that would do clean up within the village and provide the villagers with paper bags for throwing in, the rubbish.

photo by Esther Wambui

 We are requesting the government to be providing us with more paper bags, since as times we are faced with shortage of materials.

Some month ago my fellow neighbor and the villagers were used to through due to the infections that were brought up by the stagnant water in the drainage-system.

One Saturday morning when I walked up with a smile on my face and having all the strength in me, I did exercise by lifting up the stones that were joined together by a stick, I used to stand at the centre then I lifted the stones that were joined by the stick I became more  and more strong.

I collected all the garbage’s that were there I took them to a cart were I took all the garbage’s to a nearby dumpsite to burn them, I cleaned the drainage-system by pouring water inside it and the drainage-system became very clean and clearer even the villagers became beautiful, as beautiful as queen in the palace.

The infections decreased due to general cleaning and for us to avoid sickness that are brought up by dirtiness we have to supply papers to all plots so that they can through garbage’s inside into the papers and then we as a group we ought to collect all the garbage’s and burn them,

And we as group we are requesting the government of Kenya to help us with those papers

My hobbies are reading magazines, listening to music, socializing and travelling. My ambition is to be a tour guide.

 My advice to the youth is to live peaceful and always make positive ideas.

I dropped school in form three due to lack of school fees and now I have a kid [a baby boy] who is seven month old. His name is Emmanuel [Manu]

I hope to make positive ideas change in the future through skills training the in the Digital storytelling project for advocacy