In a heartwarming turn of events, thousands of Kenyan TikTokers flooded Othaya Town on Sunday to visit a fellow TikToker, Kaluma Boy, who recently went viral after his story of taking care of his stroke-stricken father surfaced.
Before they made the journey to Othaya, Kenyans had already contributed money to help Kaluma Boy take care of his father.
Images seen by Kenyans.co.ke showed a mammoth crowd in both hired matatus and bodabodas congregating in Othaya Town before heading towards Kaluma's rural home in Chinga for a highly anticipated healing and restoration event.
Kaluma Boy has been creating content surrounding the care of his father, even going live ever so often, sometimes alongside his father.
Shortly after, Kenyans started rallying together and created a paybill number to funnel the money through
In a story time explaining what happened to his father, Kaluma Boy relayed that he had been sick for over a year, having suffered a stroke and gone into a three-month coma in August 2024.
"My father has been sick for one year now. He got sick at the beginning of August last year, then he went into a coma for three years and left the hospital in December," he narrated.
"By now, I can say he is improving, but it still feels like he is in a hospital ward, but at home."
Besides the burden of taking care of the father, he revealed several financial constraints that his expensive treatment plan required, including the changing of his catheter.
His treatment also involved frequent therapies, which Kaluma said could cost up to Ksh1,000 per day.
"Please support us. If we could find someone to take him to a facility where he can get regular physical therapy sessions, he can get better faster because when he is at home, it is a bit hard," Kaluma implored.
In his over 259,000 TikTok followers, however, Kaluma has formed not just a loyal following, but also a family that often seeks to interact with his ailing father, endearingly calling him "dad".
The highly anticipated Sunday, September 28, event has now brought together the online community following weeks of online planning, in the usual Kenyan fashion.
