Come the next day which was Saturday, a report just came from the hospital that their beloved father had just died on Saturday morning due to heart attack. It was unbelievable to Amos that had t lost his father just like that. His father was buried in his home village of Nyamira County after one week. After the burial, the family went back to the city. This was the beginning of the turning point in Amos’s life their last born was just two months old when his father died and his two elder brothers were sixteen and fourteen.
Amos’s family lived in the capital city of Kenya, Nairobi in a well-furnished rented house. The house rent was about $400. They went to private schools which were very expensive at that time and they used to go on vacation at least once every year. His father gave them everything they needed. All that was possible because of the good pay their father got since he was a very senior government official.
After Amos’s father’s death, his mother was unable to pay house rent, pay school fees for them, and buy them food in the city and pay all the bills. Life was very expensive in the city. Now