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Where parents become police reservists to protect their children

Home guards and Kenya Police Reservists patrol Nakatong’wa Primary School in Turkana East to protect their children from constant bandit attacks

Every day as dawn breaks, Esuruan Awet takes up a duty that has become his routine.

Together with other Kenya Police Reservists (KPR), he arms himself in order to guard his children as they begin their journey to Nakatong'wa Primary school in Turkana East.

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