a new study has revealed the difficulties encountered by Kenyans when it comes to provision of quality education to children.A study conducted by Twaweza East Africa has revealed that almost half of Kenyan (44%) families with school going children have had to withdraw them in past six months due to inability to pay school fees.Additionally, inability to buy school supplies also contributed to withdrawal of students from school.These findings were released by Twaweza East Africa in a research brief titled Going Without? Household economics in Kenya. “Measuring poverty and its relationship to our everrising GDP may be a contested area. But the lived reality of poverty presented in these data cannot be ignored. Most Kenyans make difficult choices everyday between basic needs despite the credit our economy gets for strong growth,” said,” Dr John Mugo, Director of Data and Voice at Twaweza
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Study: Half of Kenyan households withdrawing children from school due to poverty
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