The Office of President Uhuru Kenyatta has intervened after the story of an unemployed graduate girl went viral.
According to Citizen, Ruth Chemutai Rono has picked the Energy Regulatory Commission over other organisations that had offered her a job.
Chemutai had received calls from different organizations promising to give her paid internships after her predicament was aired by the media.
Among the organizations that contacted her was The Reale Hospital in Eldoret. She stated that they offered her a paid internship and medical insurance for her ailing grandmother.
She also disclosed that her previous lecturers at Chuka University had promised to look for a better job for her. In the meantime, they offered her a teaching job at the local Ndagani Secondary School to teach business.
Seven Meals Limited, a non-governmental firm headquartered in Utawala, Nairobi, also offered a paid internship.
Furthermore, they offered to provide a house for herself and her siblings, as well as send them to school at Utawala Primary School.
In Kisumu, Giselle Foundation had offered to give her a fulltime job, pay fees for her siblings and look for someone to take care of them.
The Baringo County Government also contacted her seeking to take her in as an intern.
Before her plight was highlighted, the 27-year-old graduate of Economics and Statistics did menial jobs in Lelbatai Village to raise money for food and other basic needs, including her siblings’ school fees.
She was forced to take up a role as her family's sole breadwinner after her father allegedly ran off and her mother became deathly ill.
