Back to school in Kenya. (Update).Last fall, JS reported that many children in Kenya could not attend school because their families could not afford school fees (see "In the Coffee Fields of Kenya, "Nov. 1, 2002). In January, Kenya abolished fees for all primary schools, allowing thousands of children to return to the classroom. The new President of Kenya, Mwai Kibaki Mwai Kibaki (born November 15, 1931) is the President of Kenya. Kibaki was previously Vice President (1978 - 1988), and has held several other cabinet positions, including Minister for Finance (1978 - 1981), Minister for Home Affairs (1982 - 1988) and Minister for Health (1988 - (m-W'EYE kee-BAH-kee), won a landslide landslide, rapid slipping of a mass of earth or rock from a higher elevation to a lower level under the influence of gravity and water lubrication. More specifically, rockslides are the rapid downhill movement of large masses of rock with little or no hydraulic flow, election last December, in part by promising to eliminate school fees. Before 2003, parents in this impoverished country had to pay up to $192 per child each year. School enrollment in Nairobi, the capital, had fallen to-just over 50 percent. Now Kenya must find room for the thousands of new and returning students who have flooded the country's estimated 17,000 primary schools. At present, many of these kids must wait. But, says Education Minister George Saitoti Prof. George Kinuthia Saitoti (born 1945) is a mathematician, politician, and former Vice President of Kenya. Biography and education Saitoti claims to be a Maasai, but opponents say he is Kikuyu[1]. , "I want to tell Kenyans that we are not going to relent re·lent v. re·lent·ed, re·lent·ing, re·lents v.intr. To become more lenient, compassionate, or forgiving. See Synonyms at yield. v.tr. Obsolete 1. [let up] until every child of primary age is enrolled in the schools." |
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