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Traders' tills empty as schools remain closed

Reuben Maina (left), a lab technician at Enkinda Secondary School, sells educational revision materials to a parent at Nyamira Town. [Stanley Ongwae, Standard]

David Kamau has been selling cabbages to Kieni Constituency’s Gitegi Primary School in Nyeri for the last two years. In a week, Kamau delivers 90 heads of cabbages to the day school. 

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