Mourners in Kisii County struggled to hold back tears as a young KCSE candidate stood beside her late mother’s coffin in the early hours of the morning, then left to sit one of the most important exams of her life before returning to lay her to rest.
Moraa said the sight broke her heart. The student did not utter a word, and tears streamed down her face as those around her wept with her. “Her heart was heavy, she didn’t speak anything, tears all over, we couldn’t hold ours,” she wrote.
Despite her grief, the candidate went on to sit her Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination. She then came back home to take part in the burial, carrying two major moments in a single day: an exam that could shape her future and the farewell of the woman she had just lost.
Moraa also turned her thoughts to the children the deceased left behind, saying they were struggling to cope without their mother. “Your children are hurting sister, they are asking me about you,” she wrote in her tribute, where she also described the departed woman as a sister and a daughter of her mother.
The incident has drawn attention to the emotional toll on learners when bereavement falls during critical moments in their education. For this Kisii student, a day meant for exams and dreams of the future turned into one of grief and painful memories.
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