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Africa-Press – Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>In a heartwarming turn of events, thousands of Kenyan TikTokers flooded Othaya Town on Sunday to visit a fellow TikToker, Kaluma Boy, who recently went viral after his story of taking care of his stroke-stricken father surfaced.<\/p>\n

Before they made the journey to Othaya, Kenyans had already contributed money to help Kaluma Boy take care of his father.<\/p>\n

Images seen by Kenyans.co.ke showed a mammoth crowd in both hired matatus and bodabodas congregating in Othaya Town before heading towards Kaluma’s rural home in Chinga for a highly anticipated healing and restoration event.<\/p>\n

Kaluma Boy has been creating content surrounding the care of his father, even going live ever so often, sometimes alongside his father.<\/p>\n

Shortly after, Kenyans started rallying together and created a paybill number to funnel the money through<\/p>\n

In a story time explaining what happened to his father, Kaluma Boy relayed that he had been sick for over a year, having suffered a stroke and gone into a three-month coma in August 2024.<\/p>\n

“My father has been sick for one year now. He got sick at the beginning of August last year, then he went into a coma for three years and left the hospital in December,” he narrated.<\/p>\n

“By now, I can say he is improving, but it still feels like he is in a hospital ward, but at home.”<\/p>\n

Besides the burden of taking care of the father, he revealed several financial constraints that his expensive treatment plan required, including the changing of his catheter.<\/p>\n

His treatment also involved frequent therapies, which Kaluma said could cost up to Ksh1,000 per day.<\/p>\n

“Please support us. If we could find someone to take him to a facility where he can get regular physical therapy sessions, he can get better faster because when he is at home, it is a bit hard,” Kaluma implored.<\/p>\n

In his over 259,000 TikTok followers, however, Kaluma has formed not just a loyal following, but also a family that often seeks to interact with his ailing father, endearingly calling him “dad”.<\/p>\n

The highly anticipated Sunday, September 28, event has now brought together the online community following weeks of online planning, in the usual Kenyan fashion.<\/p>\n

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