Boniface Mwangi Starts Funds Drive To Support 33-Year-Old Kisumu Woman Living in Poverty Kenya News – Tuko.co.ke

Activist and politician Boniface "Bonnie" Mwangi has started a charity drive geared towards helping 33-year-old Evelyn from Kisumu who lives in abject squalor.

In a video on his Instagram page, the award-winning photographer explained that he was in the lakeside county doing stories when he came across the suffering firstborn in a family of five.

Evelyn's problems stem from the fact that her polygamous father was married to seven wives, and both her parents died 20 years ago.

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Given that her late dad did not foster a healthy bond between them and her stepmothers and their children, she has been left to live like an enemy on her father's compound.

He added that the person who paid Evelyne's high school fees took advantage of her and left her with two children, essentially rendering her a teenage mum.

Given that she does not earn much yet has to take care of her children as well as her small siblings, the family barely scrapes by in their dilapidated house.

Polygamy is a phenomenon that has remained rampant in Africa since time immemorial.

Interestingly, it is loved and frowned upon in equal measure by individuals who were born and raised in such households.

Proponents believe that polygamy is good as it creates a large happy family where children have several siblings and different parents to learn and enjoy company from.

Critics, on the other hand, argue that a family with several wives is recipe for disaster as it creates a robust environment for jealousy and unhealthy competition.

It even gets worse, like in Evelyne's case, where the patriarch either loses his means of income and throws the household into financial struggle or passes on leaving the many wives and children brawling over meagre resources.

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