THREAD 🧵#HUSTLERFUND😂

As a venerated Luo, requesting for the Hustler Fund isn't something that falls right into the realms of my pride, community, tenets and cultural status. But, well, what happens when a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do? I found out the interesting way.. While driving down Thika Road, my sleek Toyota Auris malfunctioned. Saddled with a flat tyre, I was, needless to say, forced to stop, get out and attend to the embarrassing occurrence, whilst other motorists zoomed past me, some hooting incessantly - and, others, vexingly.

You're over 70 yrs old. You live alone. In a rugged mabati shack. Oh, you don't really live alone, but with your granddaughter who has HIV/AIDS, is BLIND, is DEAF, is CRIPPLED and has temporary paralysis. This is the real life of Nancy Wanjiku, a Kiambu Cucu.

This is her story. I'm in Limuru running errands when, over lunch, I stumble upon a distressing @Tuko_co_ke article. Quickly, I scroll through it. It says that poor Cucu Nancy uses plastic bags and old rags as diapers for her immobilised 20/yr old granddaughter, Purity Wanjiku. And there's more...