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A Duksi class in Balatraha village, Wajir County. [Jeckonia Otieno, Standard]

A three-door unused classroom block stands on the edge of Balatraha village, some 125 kilometres from Wajir town.

The structure, which was constructed earlier this year by the Tarbaj Constituency Development Fund (CDF), was meant to bring education closer to the children if the nomadic community living in this village.

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