Hard Lessons: Learning in very unforgiving conditions(Mathare Slums)

How much would you put into educating your child? It is almost safe to assume that given the opportunity, many people would not hesitate to spend vast amounts educating their children. But what if the only money available can barely take care of food requirements and other basic necessities? In the first part of our new special series, Hard Lessons, Mark Masai visits Mathare slums, where despite the abject poverty, pupils and teachers alike are beating high odds in their quest of drinking from the fountain of knowledge.

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[ghostman3331]

hey these kids are getting a better education than they do in the us one day those kids u see in that class is gonna be runing the world these kids act well behaved in the us most the class is out in the hall setting in desks lined against the wall getting no education at all just a book to read because they disrupt the class with lack of disipline these kids yes have to poop and pee and looked like they had a good system they all look brightly dressed and look clean there might not be eye candy

[jamuthe]

The three issues that the first government strived to fight with were ignorance, poverty and diseases. infact ever since kenya was granted independence. majority of kenyans are living in absolute poverty . to me i believe that mark is trying to remind each and every one of us to take government to task on implementing the first three issues the first government had promised to eradicate.

kudos mark. job well done

[jamanyoro]

kenya damu i agree with you. u allready say it all thanks. and God will help uor people.

[karuitha]

I remember Tony Blair's 3 simple election campaign promises in 1997, education, education, education.

And in his final years as UK PM, he got the country's top top billionaires and millionaires to help in building state of the art city acdemies all over the country. Apart from the ugly side of Iraq war, education is one of Blair's Legacy. Give me a politician in Kenya that will come in with such a motto and he or she will have my vote.

[karuitha]

If the government committed to building 10 schools countrywide a year, I would be very impressed.

This can be achieved if the government stop upgrading its mercede benzes and funding those white elephants, then we can find money to build schools.

[wachaushenzi]

Yet Mathare is only a Slingshot (feya) away from RRRRunda

[nonini8]

we should blame nobody but ourselves Shame on us!

[kenyandamu]

True and some of these MP's are only seen once every five years when soliciting for votes and giving out unga na sukari ...

African Politicians are are rare breed for real ...

[geshmn]

haiya,even churches do not pay tax?.what about church owned businesses?,so margaret wanjiru has very good returns on investment

[siasabora]

Odhi: Non profit are corrupt alright...however, if the NGOs today pulled out of Kenya, it would be the end, and the beginning of a new lifestyle!