Lilian Achieng Gogo was raised in a large family, the 6th-born of 13 children, and the only one her father educated successfully. “I didn’t drop out like my older siblings so he paid my fees,” she says. And she didn’t let him down, eventually obtaining a PhD. “During my PhD graduation my mother cried; she couldn’t believe what I had achieved,” she remembers with tears in her eyes. “After seeing what education had helped me achieve, my mother enrolled in primary school at age of 62 years and is now in class 3.