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Back to school: Parents scramble for second-hand books, uniforms

Some of the students waiting to board buses to travel for the opening of the schools for the second term in Mombasa County on Tuesday 29th April 2025. [Kelvin Karani, Standard]

As the last strands of Christmas decorations came down earlier than usual in many homes, parents across the country shifted their focus to a more pressing reality: the reopening of schools in January.

For thousands of families, festivities were cut short as they rushed to bookshops, school uniform outlets and open-air markets in a frantic scramble to prepare their children for the new academic year.

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