Nely Cheboi: Raila Gave Me Ksh 300K When I Was Stranded

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Nelly Cheboi, the 2022 CNN Heroes award winner, revealed that Raila Odinga facilitated her journey to the US, where she enrolled for a scholarship.

Speaking in an interview Cheboi revealed that she would have been stuck in Kenya if it were not for Raila.

"I went to Maryhill Girls High School, got an A in my studies, and was to travel to the United States for my scholarship. I had a deadline of two weeks to report.

My area MP organised my passport, but I was stuck, I had no visa or travel air ticket until I met Raila, who gave me Ksh 300,000,” she recalled in the mid-December 2022 interview.

Cheboi received a full scholarship to Augustana College in Illinois in 2012 to pursue computer science.

She  is a Kenyan software engineer turned philanthropist who bagged the 2022 CNN Hero of the Year Award on Sunday, December 11, securing a Ksh74 million reward.

In the event hosted at the American Museum of Natural History, CNN veteran journalist, Anderson Cooper, announced Cheboi as the winner emerging top among 10 other nominees.

Cheboi, in 2019, quit her lucrative software engineering job in Chicago to create computer labs for Kenyan schoolchildren through her non-profit company, TechLit Africa.

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[audacityofhope]

Over to you @Kadudu, say something nice about the other guy ......

[RV Pundit]

I doubt it came from his pocket. It must have been when he was PM .

[Kadudu]

Raila is a generous man, but never trumpets his donations.

Good example. When Martin Shikuku was ailing with cancer, it is Raila who paid his hospital bills despite the two being not always on the same political sides. This I know 100% because the owners of the cancer treating centre confirmed it to me. Was this ever reported in the papers?

Over to you @Kadudu, say something nice about the other guy ......

[Kadudu]

But you can confirm the Sunday sadakas of your man from Sugoi are from his pockets.

I doubt it came from his pocket. It must have been when he was PM .

[patel]

Very kind and generous of Raila. Let us learn to appreciate good deeds without soiling others. Hapa baba alicheza kama yeye.

[Georgesoros]

The guy loves education investment, and will go all the way to make long term investment that benefits anyone - including those he doesnt know.

[audacityofhope]

Turns out @Patel is a decent human being...

Very kind and generous of Raila. Let us -learn to appreciate good deeds without soiling others. Hapa baba alicheza kama yeye.

“No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his culture, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” - Mandela