According to her club patron, Susan Ntoiye a class 8 girl of St Paul Dagara Primary School in Laikipia West is a well behaved and responsible girl who takes initiative in making things work before she is even told to do something. This is very evident by the fact that she is the vice president of the student council and the treasurer of the peer mentorship club in school; Aflatoun Club.
She’s an orphan, and she’s been the mother to their family since she was in class 4 when her mother passed away, thus, she started carrying out responsibilities when young, as she also had to look for ‘vibarua’ as a house help to make money to buy food.
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She is bold enough to admit that she used to cut her mattress and use as a sanitary pad during her menses because she could not tell her 2 elder brothers anything she was going through especially concerning sanitary matters. Due to all manner of things she was going through she started dropping in her academic performance somewhere in class 6-7, but an improvement in her performance has risen ever since the Jielimishe GEC project started conducting structured mentorship in intervention schools, thus in her 3rd term of class 7 she performed better and in 1st term of class 8 she recorded an even higher increase in marks and she was position 3 in midterm. Additionally, mentorship has helped her immensely since she had no one to consult when she needed to make any decisions about her goals, and she has gotten to make commitments to self through the mentorship sessions.
