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Revealed: Why public schools are no longer safe for your children

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School going children cross a dangerous footbridge that connects Kambui and Konoka villages in Kisumu West Constituency Kisumu County on January 28, 2020. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

Children learning in Kenyan public schools are increasingly facing new threats that lead to harm, disruption of their education and high school dropout.

The findings of an education taskforce also reveal the emergence of new threats to learners in schools that put the children's lives and future at risk.

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