Grief has engulfed a family in Embu after their daughter, Catherine Nyawira, died in Saudi Arabia, where she had been working for 15 years.
Nyawira left Kenya in 2011, hoping to give her two daughters a better life. She kept in touch through calls and financial support, promising one day they would be reunited.
Her family in Karuruma village, Runyenjes, say they were denied the dignity of laying her to rest at home.
Her father, Damiano Nyaga, explained that she had passed away on August 1, and the family was told to raise Sh450,000 within 25 days in order to repatriate the body.