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Failed varsity dream that produced thriving publishing company

Targeter Educational Publishers’ CEO, Peter Kiarie (left), and MD Boniface Macharia at the printing plant. PHOTO | SALATON NJAU |

Boniface Macharia’s story reads like many others who have come from a humble background; he failed to proceed to university due to financial constraints, ending his dream of becoming a science teacher.

His departure from the path of extreme want came in 2004 when he and his older brother Peter Kiarie ventured into publishing revision books for sale to primary school candidates.

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