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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.