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.