An advertising company, which has since deleted the advert, offered Kabei a job through a female executive and even offered to walk with her. The lady even offered some words of wisdom to the girl who had given up.

Days later, the carpet was pulled from under Kabei's feet when she got an email telling that that they were not going to give her a job.

Kabei said that the outdoor advertising company went online and posted to the world that they had given her a job without even knowing her name, course she studied or story.

"Their HR had just started talking to me in inbox…yet someone from the same company was already posting that I had been hired. I hadn’t been interviewed, or assessed but to them my pain was trending, and that was enough," she said.

"As millions shared the "good news," I was still being asked, Who are you again? They used my moment of vulnerability for their spotlight, and when they got enough likes, they fell silent. I kept waiting for feedback after the interview. Thursday, nothing. Friday, nothing," she added.

After days passed with no communication from the company, Kabei reached out to them, and when she asked, they told her that there was no position for her, that she didn’t qualify.

"Yet they had already told the world that they gave me a job. Back home in Turkana, my father had borrowed two goats for transport. He sold them after a neighbor showed him the video," explained Kabei.

"He told his fellow boda boda riders that he was finally retiring, because his daughter had made it. That the 20 years of raising us without a mother… had finally paid off. In the single room I live in with my married sister and her two kids, we had a whole celebration over tea and stories," she added.

In her neighbourhood, Kabei's neighbours stopped to say congratulations, but now she has to hide, walk fast and turn away when people ask how she is doing in her new job.

"I’m too embarrassed to explain the truth because what they did to me wasn’t just PR. It was exploitation, deception an publicly proved everything I was crying about in that viral video.I haven’t slept since and I’m still jobless. Now I carry a wound I never deserved," she said.

"This isn’t just my story. It’s the story of so many young people in Kenya used, discarded, and humiliated. Let this message reach the world," she said painfully.

In another story, the information that the job offer had been revoked caused an uproar among Kenyans, with many saying that the company was unfair and had exploited the moment.

May said that the company's approach was wrong given what the young girl was going through and had expressed publicly.

Many hoped that the young girl would get a good because a close door sometimes means another will open somewhere.

Source: TUKO.co.ke