Lemaramba had to wake up by 3am to get enough time to trek to school and be in class by 5am for morning preps.
“I would start my journey to school at 4am. I would walk for an hour to get there for morning preps between 5am and 6am," he told the Star.
The firstborn in a family of 13 children says he is determined to work hard in class and become a doctor.
But his hard work could go to waste because his parents have no money to enrol him in high school. He could be stuck herding goats.
Michelle Kinya, also 15, tells a similar story of perseverance. She would wake up early to go to school, risking attacks by wild animals.
She scored 391 marks and hopes to join Pangani Girls Secondary School. She dreams of becoming the Chief Justice in the country.
“Sometimes my mother had to escort me to school because it was not safe to walk alone," she said.
Some years back, a girl was raped on her way to school in the morning and she got pregnant and had to drop out.
“The fear of bad men and wild animals is why my mum would walk with me to a place where she felt it was safe and I could walk alone," she said.
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