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Life of a student in North Eastern Kenya

Through the thorny bushes of North Eastern Kenya, the acacia tree is a common sight that makes many wonder. The tree provides shed and also commonly used by many organisations from the region as their logo. Surprisingly, it serves many education-greed children as an open-air classroom.

Many people, particularly those from North Eastern, have passed the hard way in getting education to complete the 8:4:4 education system. Most parts of the region are dry and the people are nomads who practice pastoralism. They move from one place to another in search of pasture and water for their animals endangering the future of their children.

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