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Parents are enablers, motivators and facilitators of their children’s education.
A church-goer attends an inclusive church for the LGBTI community in Rwanda.
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A significant number of Rwanda’s LGBT community experience hostility. This includes at work and when trying to access health services.
Students in a Nairobi slum school. There are more than monetary barriers for parents from poor neighbourhoods.
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Getting more children into secondary school in Kenya requires striking a balance between top-down policy and bottom-up implementation.
Pupils from Kibera, one of the largest slums in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.
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Education outcomes of young people can be improved with targeted interventions. At the centre lies the participation of partners – community, family and schools.
In Kenya the obsession with high exam grades means extra pressure on children.
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A new education system in set to replace the 32-year-old 8-4-4 system which has come to symbolise much of what’s wrong with education in Kenya today.