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A CONTINUATION OF WHAT CHALLENGES EDUCATION IN OUR SOCIETY

Like I pointed out in my last post, there is a lot more that I would want to share on what challenges education in the Kilifi society. POVERTY Poverty is one of the biggest challenges that hinder education in our great County of Kilifi. After the free primary education was announced, almost every young man or woman who had dropped out of school rushed to join school again. Schooling had been made easy. No fee was required, no significant money to pay for anything. Primary education was truly free then. Several years down the line, primary education is no longer as free as it was even after being made a law that it would continue to be free almost forever. Today there are many expenses that pupils have to pay for if they are to remain in school. That's the primary education not even secondary. Poverty has therefore denied children access to education. These children come from extremely poor families(and that's the situation of very many families in Kilifi) which can with dif