Pokotom: Is this the poorest secondary school in Kenya?

Pokotom Secondary School students write their end-of-term exams. [Joan Letting, Standard]

It is time for end-of-term exams and Form One students are seated outside, writing their English paper. Temperatures are rising fast and will soon hit 36 degrees Celsius. The students will be forced to move and make do with the little patches of shade from the few trees in the school.

They are writing their exam in the ‘borrowed’ compound of Pokotom Primary School. They have also ‘borrowed’ a head teacher, David Namoru, as well as a few teachers.