School abandons computer lessons as tablets remains unpowered

Standard Two pupils at Nalekat Primary School in Tiaty during their English lesson outdoors last week. The school's solar panels and classrooms were destroyed by strong winds. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

The digital learning programme rolled out by the Government is facing challenges in some schools in Tiaty due to lack of power and storage facilities for the tablets.

Tonic Masinde, the Nalekat Primary School deputy head teacher, said the school received 56 tablets but pupils were unable to use them because there in no power to charge the devices.