Bid to soar enrollment through cash transfers in eight counties

Education CS Amina Mohamed (right) accompanied by UK Special Envoy for Gender Equality, Joanna Roper and Samburu West MP Naisula Lesuuda at a classroom at Lorubae Primary School in Samburu. The CS hailed efforts to soar up girls' enrollment in schools.

Counties in North Eastern are home to nearly half of Kenya’s 852,000 children out of school.

According to ministry figures released last week, Mandera, Garissa, Turkana and Wajir host 41 per cent of out-of-school children between ages six and 17 years.