How children can study at home in this Covid-19 crisis

Pupils at Sharp Educational Centre, an Alternative Providers of Basic Education and Training (APBET), a low cost private school in Kayole, take part in a Computer programme. [File, Standard]

When all schools closed in mid-March, most parents thought that the ‘stay-at-home’ would last six weeks.

“I thought of it like the Ministry (of Education) has brought the April holidays for the kids forward by two weeks,” says Emma Makena, a mother of two boys aged seven and 10.