~ A 90 year old Kenyan woman who entered the class with six of grandson believed to be the oldest elementary school students in the world.
Sitting in the front row in fourth grade wearing her school uniform, Priscilla Sitienei listened attentively when he wrote the names of animals in English in his notebook.
He entered school Leaders Vision Preparatory School five years ago.
Daily he works as a midwife and has a duty that during the past 65 years in the village, in the Rift Ndalat Valleyi.
He even delivered a number of people are now becoming their own classmates, who are aged between 10 and 14 years.
Affectionately known as "Gogo", which means grandmother in Kalenjin language, he said at the age of 90 he finally learned to read and write - the first opportunity she never had as a child.
Speaking more comfortable in Kalenjin language, he explains why he wanted to go back to school. "I want to be able to read the Bible, I also want to inspire children to get an education.
"Too many children are grown without the school."
Gogo said she asked the children are not in school.
"They say that they are too old," he said, "I told them, 'Well I go to school and you also should school."
"I see kids who get lost, children without a father, will only fro, desperate. I want to inspire them to go to school."
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