A poor Kenyan mother-of-eight cooked stones for her hungry children hoping that they will fall asleep tired of waiting.

Peninah Bahati Kitsao depended on washing laundry across her town to make ends meet. However, due to the spread of coronavirus and lockdown imposed in the country, she struggled to get food for her children.

According to her, the past month has been ‘unbearable’ in her two-bedroom house, which has no water or electricity.

The woman cooked the stones for her children until they got tired of waiting and go to bed hungry. Ultimately, they got to realize she was lying to them, she revealed during an interview with Ntv.

‘They started telling me that they knew I was lying to them, but I could do nothing because I had nothing,’ she said

Prisca Momanyi, a concerned neighbour of the suffering family told local media about her ordeal. She also opened an account for her soliciting for donations from benevolent individuals.

Now Peninah has since received generous donations via mobile phone as the nation rallies around her.

‘I didn’t believe that Kenyans can be so loving after I received phone calls from all over the country asking how they might be of help,’ she said during an interview with Tuko.

The country has a feeding program targeted at the people struggling to cope with the lockdown. However, the single mother-of-eight whose husband was killed by criminals had not benefited from the programme.