Parents beat deadline to save Kenya's Kianjau Primary School from impending closure

Parents of Kianjau Primary School in Mathira constituency are in the final round of renovating the school to avoid its closure.

Grace Njoki, a parent at Kianjau Primary School, helps Frederick Githui by pulling a wheelbarrow of cement to renovate a classroom in Kianjau primary school. (PHOTOS: LYDIAH NYAWIRA/ STANDARD)

Health officials had threatened to close down the school over the poor state of the classrooms and toilets.