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A 94-year-old Kenyan man has been reunited with his family in Majengo village, Mwatate, Taita-Taveta Region after being away designed for 42 years. Hiltan Kalugho says he left house for Tanzania in 1980 to look for fortune in the adjoining country, leaving behind his spouse and seven children. Talking to Sunday Nation, he mentioned; “I left home looking for greener pastures because I needed a good future for our children. Unfortunately, I was not able to come back home because Used to do not get the money I anticipated to get to feed my family, ”. According to the senior citizen, life on the border town of Mororoni where he first worked as being a gemstone miner did not, nevertheless , turn out as he had imagined, forcing him to try their luck at livestock herding. “We did not get any kind of breakthrough. What we used to get has been only enough to maintain us, ” said Kalugho. By this time, Kalugho states, he had refused to remarry and was yearning to come back home. It took the Kenyan pastor who experienced visited the area to share Kalugho’s story on social media plus reunite him with his family members. Kalugho’s son, Mnjala Mwaluma, said after unfruitful looks for their father over the years, he or she was called by the pastor to inform him that he have been found in Tanzania. “Recently We received a call from the pastor telling me my dad had been traced in Tanzania. He came with him in order to Mombasa where we visited meet him, ” mentioned Mwaluma. Kalugho returned house last week to find that their wife had died within 2007, as did their two other sons. “I feel so bad that will some of my family members are certainly not here to witness the particular reunion. I had longed to find out my wife and all my kids. ” he said.