Not all heroes don capes. Susan Akinyi is a woman who has tirelessly toiled throughout her life to protect and care for the lives of her beloveds.
The mother of 2 takes care of five kids in total; 3 being her late sister’s children
In an interview, Susan revealed that she has always been at loggerheads with her mother since birth. She did not have the easiest of childhoods growing up in Kakamega.
Despite the never-ending conflict between the duo, Susan has remained steadfast in protecting everyone in the entire family.
Throughout her life, she has struggled to ensure the children receive essential necessities such as food, decent clothing and an education.
Recently, Susan Akinyi shared how she completed building her beautiful house in Kakamega, one which cost her Sh. 1.42 million.
“Building that house has cost me Sh. 1.42 million, inclusive of everything from furniture to a water tank. Then the tractor cost me Sh. 316,000 to build its shed. I bought the tractor at Sh. 142,000,” she narrated in the exclusive interview.
The industrious woman has held employment positions in Saudi Arabia and Iraq. She started working in the Gulf countries around the mid-2010s.
Despite the negative perceptions about employers in the Arab nations, Susan explained that her personal experience has been very positive. Both families treated her with kindness and respect.
She prefers her Iraq employer largely due to her family’s compassion and their overall understanding nature.
In addition to regular earnings from her employment contract, Susan’s employer who worked at the University of Baghdad would provide her with bonus tips and loans whenever she needed them.
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“Towards the end of the term, she would come with the exam papers in six boxes and ask me to arrange them for her. After that, she would pay me Sh. 142,000. She would do that like four times in a year,” the woman narrated.
Her boss would always assure her that everything would be okay whenever she was worried. Susan, having dropped out of school at an early age, did not learn English. Her employer offered her a course in which she would learn the language.
In 2020, Susan Akinyi recounts when the house her grandmother and her children lived in began to fall apart. She told her employer about the situation and she offered her a loan of Sh. 800,000.
“When that house had fallen to the ground, I asked my employer to loan me Sh. 800,000 and she accepted. So she gave me the money and I started the building project as I worked to pay the loan. She gave me a waiver of about Sh. 270,000. She has helped me,” Susan praised her boss.
