For the past 10 days, Doreen Auma has been stuck at Igigo Primary School in Bunyala North with her three children aged under 10 years.
Her occasional smile as she speaks hides the pain of living in a temporary abode where her children are exposed to a lack of privacy, diseases and now the sad reality of being rendered homeless when schools reopen next week.
She is among the 159 families displaced when River Nzoia burst its banks due to heavy rains.
"If the waters subside, say three days before the schools open, it will be good for us. The days are moving fast and my fear is that we will be definitely chased away from this school when studies resume yet we have nowhere to go. I silently pray that the floods go or the days don't move as fast as they are doing," she says.
But it's not her children alone who suffering as a result of the flooding and lack of food as another victim, Francis Dadero, recounts.
"We are largely a subsistence farming and fishing community and after the farms were submerged, we were left with one option but to go fishing despite the fact that venturing into the turbulent is tantamount to dicing with death," he says.
Joseph Osere, the acting head of Busia Disaster Management Department, says they had warned families living closer to the river beds to move to higher grounds, preferably the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University College grounds.
"We are aware of their current plight and exposure to risks like waterborne diseases and malaria and we have held meetings for resource mobilisation, including food and non-food supplies to help return their lives to normalcy," he adds. "We have also contacted humanitarian groups as we plan to mitigate the damage of the floods."
Osere estimates that in Bunyala North, at least 100 acres of farmland harboring maize, beans, potato, sorghum, cassava and sugarcane was destroyed in seven villages with rain surface water.
"In Bunyala Central more than half of the lower Bubango sub-location (approximately 450 acres) have been marooned by waters and in Bunyala South which has the highest number of the displaced household (112) pit latrines in Musoma and Budala schools have been destroyed," he says.
His worst fear is that should the waters rise past the 3.5 meters mark, which would make the situation severe.
Area MCA Sylvanus Alianda says construction of a dam to store excess water is the only way to stop perennial displacements.
