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Life of a student in North Eastern Kenya

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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.

Many children stop going to school because of their nomadism life that makes them move from one place to another forcing them to drop out of school and start looking after the livestock of their parents. Girls are the most affected victims of the large percentage of children who drop out of school before completing the education system.

Girls from both the rural and urban areas around North Eastern Kenya are major victims of cultural activities that lead to increase in the rate of school drop-outs across the region. Cultural activities like early marriages and the illegal Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) have led to the increase in girls who drop out of school before completing their education.

They are forced into marriage by their parents who don't care about education but only the small dowry that comprises of two cows,a goat and some amount of cash.

Education in North Eastern Kenya has deteriorated due to terror attacks that took charge some times back. From the mass exodus of teachers that claimed 28 lives to the killings of 36 quarry workers in Mandera and finally, the Garissa University attack that claimed 147 lives and many other attacks have led to the deterioration of the education system around the three counties of North Eastern Region. Many teachers fled the region particularly Mandera county for their lives hence leading to an emergency halt that came to the education circus in the region.

Terrorism is a global phenomenon that affects all people from different walks of life. Terrorism contributed to the fall of the performance of North Eastern students who performed poorly in the recent past National examinations.

Many locals who did their KCSE 2015 got chances in the universities to study teaching to fill the chances left by the non local teachers who fled the region in order to boost the education profile in North Eastern.

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