Funding gaps threaten to end two decades of free education in Kenya

Bonyo Elijah Don, World Vision’s Director of Policy and Advocacy, addressing stakeholders on the impact of the National Budget on Children's rights in Education. [Jennipher Wachie, Standard]

New findings have shown that Kenya’s commitment to providing free basic education is currently facing serious financial constraints, with the possibility of an end to free education.

Already, parents are shouldering 50 per cent of the budget for schools, and soon they could be thrust to the centre of financing their children’s education after enjoying more than two decades of the late President Kibaki’s Free Primary School Education, which came into effect on 6 January 2003.