Nairobi slum students surf their way to success

A student enjoys free internet. The Internet for Schools Project plans to connect over one million students across the country to the web. [PHOTO: DOMINIC OMONDI/STANDARD]

NAIROBI: On this warm afternoon when we pay a surprise visit to the students of St Michael Secondary School at the Mukuru Promotion Centre in South B, Nairobi, we find a number of students in the school's computer room. Their eyes are glued to the screens.

But they are not here for computer classes. Most of them are reading for their literature class.