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Parents and students suffer as schools take new lines of business

A worker carrying football goalposts removed at a cultivated playground of Vision Academy in Subukia, Nakuru county on August 7, 2020. The owner of the school who is also the Nakuru Booksellers association chairman Albert Kimani has decided to plant vegetables at the school compound to sustain him and his teachers after the schools were closed countrywide due to Covid 19 Pandemic. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

Many parents with children in private schools are in the frantic search for alternatives after proprietors of some institutions turned to new business ventures.

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