THE STANDARD
NEWS
Barbra Achieng
Dennis Ndung’u has been determined to hold onto the joys that life offers, but the past three years have given him little to celebrate.
He was born with a spinal injury that robbed him of the ability to walk. A pressure wound that develops time and again due to prolonged sitting on his wheelchair has also meant that the Form Three student has never completed a school year since joining Salvation Army Joytown Secondary School.
Bedsores are injuries to skin and underlying tissue resulting from prolonged pressure on the skin.
He reckons that things would have been worse had he not been enrolled in Equity Bank’s Wings to Fly Scholarship Programme, a signature initiative of Equity Group Foundation’s Education and Leadership Development pillar that sponsors bright needy students through high school.