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Back in the day growing up, Saumu Mbuvi lived with her mother in Malindi while her dad Sonko stayed in Nairobi eking out a living.
Their living arrangements meant he could not be with his daughter Saumu as she grew up.
Speaking to SPM Buzz, Saumu told that he made sure to work hard and provide for his family.
She recalled one instance when he visited her in Malindi and gave her sh30,000.
“He had to make sacrifices but he made sure he was present in my life. So I wouldn’t say there is anything I regret about my upbringing. It was very humble “ she shared about her upbringing.
She further added
“Even if he as so busy and he was. There is a time he came, and that time Mum was broke. He had come from a meeting in Mombasa.
He made sure he drove to Malindi he called me to go see him.
Akatoa I think that was the first time I ever saw so much money. Aliniiambia shika hii . Hii ni yako ya school fees na ya matumizi yako”
Sonko further gave his daughter some more cash.
“Alafu akaniambia na hii ununue simu .
Yani until people in that area thought I had come from stealing because life started changing now kutoka kwa hio it was a humble place where we lived.
I had never seen such an amount of money like that. Ni kama alikuwa amenipatia elfu thelathini hio wakati.”
She was grateful that despite being tired, he made time to see her.
She was ten years old then when he gave her that money.
“It was in 2005,”
Saumu told;
“He had just finished for four when he got me. He was 18 or 19. Alikuwa na dedication that he would do something better for his children, he did want us to grow up struggling as he did.”
As the first child, Saumu had it rough; “Kulikuwa na changa moto mingi but we never slept hungrily, we thank God.”
She praised him for making sacrifices for the family,
“We used to live in a makuti house in Malindi, it would rain inside, we were living according to our means. We thank God, God has been faithful to us”Saumu is the founder of the charity organization Pamoja We Can KE.