Education & economy
The first graduate in her extended family
Sokotwan, a young graduate
Sokotwan finished her diploma at a Rift Valley institute and walked back to her grandmother’s farm in a Keiyo ward with a certificate but no clear path.
The jobs she applied for asked for experience she could not build from home. The kiosk she considered opening required capital she did not have.
Her story maps directly onto the agenda pledges on a county graduate support fund, digital skills bursaries and a youth enterprise window. Hillary’s campaign is shaping those pledges from conversations like hers, not from a Nairobi desk.
Healthcare
Naomi, a widow in Marakwet West
Naomi queues at the sub-county hospital from 6am for a diabetes review. The drugs are sometimes out of stock, the lab turn-around long, and the cost of a private pharmacy refill eats into the money she had set aside for school fees for her youngest daughter.
Healthcare cannot be only about buildings. The campaign pledges to prioritise drug supply consistency at Level 4 facilities, NHIF Participation at county level, a maternal and child health follow-up programme, and a working emergency referral agreement with Kapsabet and Iten referral hospitals.
Roads & agriculture
Road closed in the wet season, milk thrown away
Ezekiel, a smallholder farmer
Ezekiel milks four cows and sells to a cooperative in Tambach. When the feeder road is cut, he watches litres of milk spoil because no vehicle can reach him.
He plants maize on a slope, harvests decently, but cannot get the surplus to a buyer before the price drops.
This is the practical case for last-mile rural road investment, aggregation points at ward level, and county Participation with national value chains for maize, tea and pyrethrum. Hillary’s agenda places these at the level of normal maintenance, not as one-off launches.
Education & safety
A school walk that decides whether she goes at all
Cheruto, a 14-year-old student
Cheruto walks seven kilometres to the nearest secondary school, partly on a road used by cattle trucks. Her parents worry about her safety in the evenings.
When it rains, she stays home for a week because the path becomes a stream. Stay-at-home weeks decide whether she keeps up with the syllabus.
Her story underpins the school-zones safety pledge, the capitation and bursary consistency pledge, and the demand for safe, all-weather pathways to every public secondary school in the county.
Energy & economy
A salon, a generator and an unreliable bill
Caroline, a small business owner
Caroline runs a small salon in Iten. Kenya Power outages cut her day short, so she fuels a small generator — which doubles her running cost and forces her to choose between staying open or staying solvent.
She cannot stock certain products because refrigeration is unpredictable.
Electricity reliability is not abstract. The campaign is pushing for the county voice on rural electrification, transformer maintenance, and a county-level dialogue with Kenya Power on outage response so small businesses have a concrete advocacy route.
Sports, talent & opportunity
They run, but the path after running is unclear
The Boys of the Keiyo South youth group
A youth athletics group in Keiyo South trains before sunrise. They clear local meets, post credible half-marathon times, and lose three of their best athletes every year to outside academies because there is no visible pathway closer to home — no coaching certification, no sports science support, no scholarship window that stays in the county.
The campaign pledges a county athletics talent pathway, coaching and sports science support, scholarship budgets that recognise rural talent, and a clear public reporting calendar so emerging athletes and their families can plan years, not weeks.