Student Yvonne triumphs at National Music Festival

Hatua student Yvonne Moraa wowed the judges and brought home two awards when she recently competed in Kenya's National Music Festival in Meru on 8 November. Schools from all over Kenya participate in the festival, which sees thousands of students coming to compete every year.

Yvonne was selected to represent her school (for Form 2), Murray Girls Secondary, in two solo competitions; public speaking and poetry performance. She also performed in the choral verse competition with 23 others from her school.

She came first place in the public speaking competition, for which she was given the topic 'agriculture'. She was up against the stiff competition of 24 others who had been selected as the top candidates to represent their respective schools.

Yvonne also triumphed in the solo poetry competition, coming second place out of 20 competitors.

"I  was nervous before I went in front of the judges," Yvonne explains, "you get butterflies... so I prayed first."

Yvonne wants to become an actress or a journalist. With her confidence and talent, we are sure we will go far!

Yvonne performs on World AIDS Day

Yvonne also performed a poem she wrote entitled 'AIDS' on World AIDS Day. Watch her performance on our YouTube channel.