In western Kenya, inequality deepens pain for students

Family heads back home from a farm in Gita, Kajulu Kisumu. PHOTO | ALLAN ODHIAMBO | NMG

Long before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in Kenya, leading to abrupt shutdown of schools in mid-March, Duncan Onyang’ and his three siblings were already disadvantaged.

Stepping out of the classroom each evening meant the end of learning for the day for the pupils at Ochok Kadongo Primary School, located about 25 kilometres west of Kenya’s third-largest city of Kisumu.

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