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A boarding school where girls live with poor hosts and boys sleep on skins

One of the dried skins used as bedding for pupils.  [PHOTOS: NANJINIA WAMUSWA/STANDARD]

By NANJINIA WAMUSWA

Marsabit, Kenya: As the bell tolls at 6pm signalling the end of the learning day at El Gade primary, pupils pick their books to leave for home.

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