Putting Children in Harms Way

It is late afternoon and the lone figure of nine-year-old Nancy Chepkemboi trudges home. To keep her head dry from the heavy rains, Chepkemboi has placed her books inside her shirt and used the polythene bag that is her school bag to cover her head.

The little girl cannot have her books wet because her teacher will send her home. But she also does not want to expose her head to the rain. With her teeth cluttering from the cold, she says that for the past few days she has had to walk home in the rain along the Nakuru-Eldoret highway in the Rift Valley.

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