Samuel Limaris
I am Samuel Limaris, a Pokot by tribe, born in Kapedo in the year 1983. My family lived at Akoret hills adjacent to Kapedo center. We grew up here and Kapedo was the only center where my parents could get food. My parents were well known here and my mother was baptized here. We had goats, sheep. cows and we could trade these well with the Turkanas who live in Kapedo. In 1987, evening hours, all hell broke out, gunshots outside my homestead, cries for help everywhere and my father had not returned home yet. The Turkana bandits had struck our home and killed anybody in sight. They took all the animals we had. My mother took my brothers and me and hid us in a valley. Our father was killed a distance from our home. Life changed forever because we had no education, health, water, nutrition; also fatherly advice was out of reach. I was later taken away from home and was given education which I completed with a lot of struggle. In 1999 I joined nursing after several Americans visited our remote village of Nginyang, I said to myself, I need to do a profession where I will be able to give back to my community. At present I am still a student at Egerton University in Kenya doing my degree in nursing. I am kindly asking my friends outside of Kenya to join me in bringing peace to both my tribes in my community- the Pokots and the Turkanas. God be with you all as you read this and think forward for the future of the two tribes.
The picture below is Samuel and Stephen, Pokot and Turkana, both nursing students and committed to working for peace in the Kapedo area after graduation.
The picture below is Samuel and Stephen, Pokot and Turkana, both nursing students and committed to working for peace in the Kapedo area after graduation.
