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Govt distributes 4.8 million textbooks to boost literacy

Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang

Nairobi: The government has distributed 4.8million textbooks to over 20,000 public primary schools under the Tusome Project, the Principal Secretary for Education Belio Kipsang has said.

The English and Kiswahili textbooks and set of supplementary reading materials, aim at strengthening the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills to class one and two children in public primary schools respectively.

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