The country's schools are closed until January as the coronavirus surges. Meanwhile, officials say there's an increase in underage expecting mothers.
"Life has changed completely," Daffala says. And chances are that many kids will never go back to school.
But on Tuesday, the government said schools are in no position to reopen, because many of them have more than 100 children per class."With children crowding, it will be impossible to think of opening schools," Akello Misori, a leader for a big teachers' union, said. "I would rather have children alive at home," she says,"than go to school and risk getting infected and dying and taking it back to their families."
"All this to me goes back to corruption and the fact that the government has never really taken it seriously to invest in educational infrastructure," she says.Back in Kibera, Jackline Bosibori, 17, has been spending almost all her days in a tiny room. It has a dirt floor and the walls and roof are made of corrugated metal."I was just idling here," she says."I didn't have anything to do. Sometimes, I was just here reading alone. I don't have anyone to be with ...
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