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If it doesn’t rain, they won’t attend school

Lemeri Kobotek, 12, fetches water from a well in Nginyang, East Pokot. She walks more than 15km every day to the well. [PHOTO: BONIFACE THUKU/STANDARD]
 Lemeri Kobotek, 12, fetches water from a well in Nginyang, East Pokot. She walks more than 15km every day to the well. [PHOTO: BONIFACE THUKU/STANDARD]

By VINCENT MABATUK and LEONARD KULEI

“Please take us there,” the little girls in the expansive East Pokot region of Baringo County shouted almost in unison as we approached them.

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