Uhuru Kenyatta |
Education Cabinet
Secretary Fred Matiangi urged the education officers to monitor the
situation and ensure school heads are not stressed as a result of the
effects of the drought.
He maintained that
teachers should not send children home and indicated that the relief
food will be distributed in collaboration with the National Youth
Service.
"There are areas in
this country that have been affected by drought. Some areas really have
serious problems. We have agreed and have also been instructed by the
President that in all those schools in areas that have been most
affected by the drought, we should now intensify our school feeding
program using money from the drought relief program of the government so
no teacher should send a student away because of this issue," he said.
Matiangi further
explained that the Education Ministry will be publishing a list of the
most affected counties and asked school managers not to demand more
money from parents.
"We will take food
to them and we shall use the NYS. Already we have started in parts of
Baringo, Northern Kenya and even some of the areas that are experiencing
more problems than usual. We shall continue doing that so that our
children can continue with school," he stated.
The Education CS at
the same time instructed all county directors in the affected areas to
freeze all the education officer's annual leave until the situation
improves.
He said the
education officials should help manage the situation and hence all
officers must be in their respective work stations at all time.The Cabinet Secretary said these were some of the raft of measures to mitigate drought effects.
On her part, Youth
and Gender Affairs CS Sicily Kariuki said the government had directed
the relief food being distributed to the affected areas will be
channeled to the respective schools directly.
This, she said will
ensure that no child misses class as a result adding that through NYS,
the government will be able to reach all the needy places across the
county.
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