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Help students from poor families to join Form one

Form One admission exercise at Muruguru High School in Nyeri on January 6, 2023. [Kibata Kihu, Standard]

The 2022 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) candidates started reporting to Form One yesterday countrywide.

Unfortunately, as they as the over one million students started their new academic journey, the fate of thousands of their colleagues, mostly from poor backgrounds, hung in the balance due to lack of school fees.

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