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Be empathetic to students from poor families

Imarika Foundation chairman Renson Ndoro (left) assists some of the 29 secondary school students from poor families whose education is sponsored by the foundation to use the smartphones that they received from the foundation as their E-learning gadgets.

Two things happened this past week in the education sector; one broke my heart while the other gave me hope. A student at Chavakali High School was sent home for fee arrears yet he didn’t even have fare. He embarked on the nearly 100km journey to his home in Trans Nzoia on foot.

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