Author: Valentine Owendi

For the longest time, I thought I was just unlucky in love. Every relationship I entered began beautifully and ended in financial disaster. Men I dated would start off stable,...

I thought I had finally found love after years of loneliness and disappointment. He was charming, attentive, and seemed deeply committed to building a future with me. We met through...

For years, I lived with a quiet ache I could never explain. I watched my best friend raise a child who looked too much like me, laughed like me, even...

For twelve long years, my sister lived a life filled with silent pain, fear, and unanswered questions. What started as a small health concern slowly grew into a nightmare that...

For more than three decades, my family lived with pain, questions, and silent tears. My father disappeared when I was still a young boy. One day he left home to...

For 15 years, I did work that many would call the hardest labor in the world. I dug toilets and graves, rain or shine, in towns across Kenya. I am a university graduate,...

For many years, my life felt like a never-ending battle against poverty. I woke up every morning with fear in my heart, not knowing how I would survive the day....