Encouraged by the new learning app, children in slum troop to school

Country Director EIDU Application Max Dohna explains how the app for children works with a smartphone. [David Gichuru/Standard]

Deep inside Kibera slum is Grace Humanitas Children Centre with jovial children anxiously waiting for learning to begin. As their teacher Corrazon Ong’ayo walks into the Pre-primary 2 classroom, the noise ceases and pupils shout greetings in unison to their teacher.

Their eyes are on the left arm of their teacher holding a four-inch-screen smartphone. Ong’ayo cautiously places the gadget onto a wooden table.