CONDITION OF SCHOOL IN ARID AREAS

Pupils of Morung’ole primary school will have to wait longer for the government to give them funds for the construction of classroom. The pupils who study on makeshift classroom do not have an alternative but to do their learning in the classroom. The school that has upto standard six has two teachers from the teacher’s service commission who teach from standard one to standard six and one from the county government taking care of the ECD learning. The Headteacher Joseph Ngitira noted alot of problems in the school mostly during the windy, rainy season where during windy season mostly in the morning hours the roof has been blown off severally where the teachers use their own money in buying iron sheets so as to enable the pupils to continue learning. Ngitiri also said that the school had benefited from NRC an NGO where they were given seven desks and three latrines were built but the latrines sank during last rains resulting pupils and teachers to use the nearby bush that is feasted by poisonous snakes. “Every morning pupils have to kill about three snakes that try to disturb them when they are learning, this is a very bad thing keeping in mind that the schools’ toilets sank during last rains making the pupils more prone since they have to defecate in the bushes near the school” added Ngitiri. Ngitiri however disclosed that he has written numerous letters to the education officers,CDF NGO’s around seeking assistance of having modern classrooms that will enable the pupils learn without fear. He said that the schools that are in the surrounding have modern classrooms saying that Morung’ole was established by the government in 2007 but started being operational in 2010. “I have tried to reach to several organisations for assistance keeping in mind that the desks in the school are not enough as pupils sit six a seat meant for three or four, the schools near my school were established years after Morung’ole but they have modern classrooms wondering why my school is left out” He added. The school has 259 pupils ECD having 157 (80 boys,77 girls), 135 boys and 124 girls from standard one to standard six. The pupils are in class from 8am upto noon so that they can go looking for water kilometres away from their Manyatta homes and school, as the school does not have a borehole that can serve the pupils in quenching their thirst. Ends... 0723321326