Are laptops more important than desks in Kenya's schools?

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Are laptops more important than desks in Kenya's schools?

By Emmanuel IgunzaBBC Africa, Nairobi

• 2016
  
• FromAfrica

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In theory, six-year-old Kenyan pupil Kizito Wafula could soon be using a government-funded laptop, but his school in the west of the country has no desks or chairs - and, crucially, no electricity to power it.

As Kenya's government tries to fulfil its 2013 election pledge to give first year primary school students access to laptops, Kizito will not be able to benefit from the ambitious $600m (£425m) Digischool scheme.

Instead he will continue to use scraps of paper to write down his notes, keeping them bundled in a small black plastic bag.

"He doesn't have proper books so he borrows paper plucked from other pupils books," says Florence Misiko, the head teacher at St Jude Nabuyeywe in Bungoma, a poor farming area.

Kizito and his six siblings live with their grandmother, who cannot afford to buy exercise books.

 

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