Kenyan woman who couldn’t afford to attend her son’s graduation 24 years ago finally visits Harvard at age 83

Chris Mburu, a Kenyan who works at UN in Geneva, Switzerland, shared the touching post on his Facebook page. Read below..

“When I graduated here 24 years ago, my mother was absent from the ceremony, because it was too expensive for her to make the trip from my native village in Kenya to the United States. 

So you can imagine the joy I felt last week as I brought her for her first visit to the university, at the age of 83! Though uneducated herself, my mother has always valued education and indeed remains one of the smartest people I know”