Why toddlers will continue to rise at dawn for school

The shock of children groping in the dark in search of knowledge isn’t new. Parents wake up children in the wee hours in a rush to beat traffic and get to school on time

It is 4 am and little feet are shuffling in the fog to school in Kiambu. 

For the toddlers, it is a rush to beat traffic before their first class at 8:00 am – often not, arriving early to chilly classrooms without teachers.