How flooding has united school, community for children’s sake

Humphreys Ouma, Headteacher Musoma AC Primary School helps pupils to alight from a boat after arriving at the school for studies. [Mumo Munuve, Standard]

Mwalimu Humphreys Ouma waits patiently for two wooden canoes ferrying his pupils to manoeuvre a stretch of murky waters to the doorstep of a classroom. He waits to help them disembark to attend classes.

This has been the routine for the last year, since the back-flow of waters from Lake Victoria and floods engulfed part of Musoma Primary School, where he is the headteacher.