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Exodus to rural schools as Covid saps incomes
Tuesday January 19 2021
Children and parents queue at Concordia Primary School in Mombasa to seek admission on January 4, 2021. FILE PHOTO | NMG
By ELIZABETH KIVUVA
Summary
The Covid-19 economic crisis has put many families across the country in a fix, forcing them to make hard choices, if only to stay afloat.
Arguably, none has been as tough as the choice of school for the thousands of parents who have had to drastically cut their expenditure in the face of shrinking income sources.
The hole dug by the health pandemic on many a parent’s pockets was evident when schools reopened on January 4 with most seeking to transfer their children from private to public institutions.
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Teresia Nyeri fits her son David Mwangi with a shirt at Uniform Plus in Mombasa. [Omondi Onyango, Standard]
Jasper Kamau lived a life he had always dreamed of.
Kamau (not his real name), a father of two, worked hard to take care of his family. His business was flourishing and he could afford to take his children to one of the top schools in Nairobi. He could afford to pay more than Sh200,000 fee per term for his children.
Then Covid-19 struck and schools had to close. And so did his event organising business, which was his only source of livelihood.