Kenyan school launches survival skills training in face of terror threats

Kampi Ya Moto Day Secondary school girls in action along a step-up concrete obstacle during the launch of life skills management training introduced at the school by retired soldiers. PHOTO: KIPSANG JOSEPH

NAKURU: We used to think of schools as safe havens back in the day. Then we began to worry about strangers or estranged family members who might come to schools to look for children.

Next we began to worry about violence, especially after 67 boys died at a school in Machakos, when their dormitory was set on fire in 2001 allegedly by two students.