Hurry hurry has no blessing 

Patience Tatu eloped to a man nine years older than her, by then she was only 19 years old and was in form three. That way in 2007. The man was their family friend and had two children from his past relationship. Patience ran away with the man in the name of marriage without informing her parents until after one year her parents threatened to arrest her man is when they decided to go to her parents to make their relationship official.

Patience was so young and unprepared to take care of the two children beside being a wife, so she had to learn and grow up very fast. They started life from scratches and by then were staying in Bungoma an worked in Malaba area with a cleaning and forwarding company. Later on they relocated while seeking for clients while patience was left back home taking care of her 2 children besides her husbands 2 children. With time he built up clientèle and were  able to employ a house help for her to join her business administration study in Daystar University in 2009. Her husband paid for her. 

By bad luck her marriage broke down in 2009 and was forced to go back to her parents. Her husband had married Patiences friend was a cashier in one of the local banks. Her husband took the children and denied her access to the kids. She passed through a tiring time but life has to go on. She has started a safety consulting firm having done this course. 




Location: Malaba, Bungoma, Kenya