DELAYED DREAMS AMIDST SCHOOL POSTPONEMENT DUE TO FLOODS IN KENYA

FEAR AND ANGER RISE WITH DELAYED DREAMS AMIDST SCHOOL POSTPONEMENT DUE TO FLOODS IN KENYA

For weeks now, heavy rains have continued to drag over half of Kenya with the humans therein. More than 163,000 residents in Nairobi have now been evacuated, some voluntarily and some forcefully, as the government announced Sunday. (CNN).

Its severity has provoked the Kenyan government to postpone school re-openings until further notice on who is winning this talk of war. School resumption has been pushed from the initial date, 30th April, to an unknown date to be communicated as the rain is contained. Let’s take a look at the feelings on the streets of Kenya, how they have received this news, and what this means to examination classes.

The girl power mentors paid a visit to the slums of Kibera to a few club members to see how they were faring and to hear their views on the delay of school re-opening.

We interviewed Meldrine a Form 4 student at Kibera Girls Soccer Academy. Meldrine who is supposed to sit for her Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education exams in November this year said that she was afraid that they would be left behind as far as the syllabus is concerned. Additionally, they will have no time to exhaust the topics programmed for the second term.

“What if the rains go on and on? That will mean we might not be able to go back to school soon and I may not become a doctor in the future as I have always wanted to be.”

Meldrine said looking sad. Despite the fear, she hopes the rains will reduce and all the students in the country will return to school. 

We also spoke to Meldrine’s mother who is a single mother of five. She explained how the late postponement affected her financial plans because she had planned ahead of the term, now this is a big blow to herself and her children.

We spoke to Ivy a grade 5 student at Joseph Kang’ethe Primary School who mentioned that she has used this period to continue building her sportsmanship in soccer at a field near her home. She said that she looks forward to the school re-opening to resume her journey of becoming a lawyer. Her mother mentioned that although Ivy is happy to be using this time to play soccer she is afraid that by the time schools re-open she will have no money for her school fees since she has used her savings to provide meals and to keep the family safe during the floods.

Another parent added…“I just pray that this flood will not be like the COVID-19 pandemic where the kids stayed at home for almost one year. I hope they can go back to school as soon as

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