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Students ditch class to work in Kericho quarries

One of the quarries located near Tunnel Mixed Day secondary school in Kipkelion West constituency. [Standard]

A construction boon is luring learners in Tunnel area in Kipkelion West Constituency out of class and into neighbouring quarries to extract building blocks.

In a day, the young labourers make up to Sh500, which is ordinarily hard to come by in an area where residents depend on subsistence farming.

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