Walk through most Kenyan school compounds during a break and you’ll see the same problem repeating itself: three or four pupils crammed onto a bench built for two, or a cluster of them standing around a bench nobody wants to sit on because the surface is cracked. It’s a small thing until you multiply it […]
I’ve seen it happen in at least three schools in Nairobi. They buy the cheapest school furniture Kenya has available, get three years out of it, replace the lot, then buy cheap again. By year six they’ve spent more than quality furniture would have cost in the first place. And the classrooms looked worse for […]