Baringo Homeless Granny Who Lost Leg After Snake Bite Gifted Walking Equipment, Promised House

• Amputee Mama Tarkok Chelimo received life-changing mobility aids from well-wishers after years of immobility
• Mwalimu Daniel Mutai's plea for urgent support for Chelimo resonated with Joni and Friends Charitable Organisation
• Plans are also underway to give Chelimo a prosthetic leg and build a better house for her

Mama Tarkok Chelimo will no longer spend all her time helplessly sitting at home as well-wishers have gifted her walking equipment to help her move around.

Chelimo set to get a house

Chelimo lost her leg after a cobra bit her four years ago and could not get proper treatment in time.

In an interview with TUKO.co.ke, Mwalimu Daniel Mutai highlighted the need to urgently support the woman living alone in her tiny, dilapidated hut.

Days later, well-wishers intervened, and she now boasts new crutches and a wheelchair.

"Joni and Friends Charitable Organisation gave her the crutches and a wheelchair. Plans are also underway to ensure that she gets a good house and prosthetic leg which cost about KSh 150,000," said Mutai.

Ezekiel Mutua's mum snake bite

Elsewhere, Music Copyright Society of Kenya boss Ezekiel Mutua was grateful he built a house for his mum after a terrible snake bite experience.

Mutua said his mum's life was in danger after being bitten by a snake that found it was in the house.

"On a fateful night in 1996, mum had a snake bite on the hand she was raising, which was to be amputated. The venomous creature had crawled into mum's bed in the middle of the night. Mum heard the commotion, and as she stretched out her hand to pick up the torch, the deadly snake attacked her. The house was a makeshift structure, and the deadly reptile had easily got in.

We had no electricity in our place then, and the roads were dilapidated and in a sorry state. There were also no good health facilities around, except Mwala Health centre, which was not well equipped. We had no mobile phones either, and it took a whole day for my siblings to get mum to Nairobi, where I lived. Poor decision, but nothing just happens," he shared in a detailed post.

He was grateful to God his mum survived, and the event compelled him to build a nice house for her and his dad.