Kenyan singer and philanthropist Madam Boss Akothee has announced the launch of the Sigiria Rescue Foundation. In an emotional Facebook posting, Akothee wrote of a tear-inducing experience that led her to launch a powerful new initiative: The Sigiria Rescue Foundation.
At Sigiria Mixed Secondary School, where she visited, Akothee did not just interact with students—she saw the bare fight of children surviving by any means. Of 40 students who were interviewed on the visit, she revealed that three-quarters of them live with grandparents who are elderly, while others are scattered around homes of strangers or brought up by poor single mothers.
But it was that one sobbing instant that gave her shivers.
“A little girl, totally orphaned, wept helplessly,” Akothee posted. “Her pain was real, and at the time even the principal couldn’t hold back. They wept together, and I wept with them.”
The experience, she insists, went beyond school fees. It was one of emotional safety, dignity, and survival.
That is why Akothee Foundation has opened its doors to initiate the Sigiria Rescue Foundation—a support system in the school to offer emotional, financial, and long-term care to vulnerable students.
“This is not charity,” Akothee insisted. “This is a moral responsibility.”
The news comes just weeks after she paid for a young boy to go to high school—a promise she fulfilled with her usual sincerity and generosity.
To mobilize support, Akothee is inviting her supporters and fellow Kenyans to join the movement and participate in the official fundraising on 1st August.
“Let’s not just talk. Let’s turn empathy into action,” she urged.
