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Monday, September 14, 2020

COVID-19 CURVE IS FLATTENNING IN KENYA

Kenya on Monday recorded one of the lowest figures in recent months after the Health ministry confirmed 48 new cases of Covid-19.

This raised the country's total to 36,205 from a sample of 1,081 tested in the last 24 hours.

Health CAS Mercy Mwangangi confirmed that all were Kenyans with 31 being male and 17 females.

Speaking during the daily Covid-19 briefing from Afya House, Mwangangi said age-wise, the youngest was a 12 -year-old infant while the oldest was 75 years old.

Mombasa leads in the daily positivity rate, recording 20 cases in the last 24 hours.

Other counties with new cases include; Nairobi, Tharaka Nithi.

PRIVATE SCHOOLS TEACHERS PLIGHT DURING CIVID-19 TIME

Dickson Karoki describes the last three months as extremely painful and confusing.

As a teacher of art and craft at a private primary school in Nairobi, he had great plans with his students, but Covid-19 outbreak changed all that.

He is slowly accepting that his career path has been changed, forever. From the time the first case that was reported in Kenya on March 13, after which schools were closed nationally, Karoki has not been paid.

As days went by, it became clearer that it will take longer before schools open. His bills were piling, and there was no income to supplement his needs. “Since I teach art that requires very close interaction with students, it was almost impossible to do most of my classes online,” he says.

He had to activate another plan. He is employing his knowledge as a beautician, focusing mostly on nail art.

“I had a family to feed, bills to pay. Yet my source of income had been cut off abruptly. Things had to change; and I am not sure if I will ever go back to teaching,” he says, solidifying a statement that most teachers in private schools have now been forced to embrace.

Peter Ndoro, Private Schools Association chief executive, says the situation in private school teachers is extremely sad, and that there are more than 300,000 people who are under their association but are now going without pay due to the pandemic.

“We were solely dependent on school fees paid by parents. Now that schools are closed till next year, it means teachers will not be paid until schools resume,” he said.

The association is asking the government to give them a stimulus to keep them afloat. They are also asking that the government considers coming up with a two-year capitation that will cushion private schools from permanent closure when they cannot afford to pay teachers or pay for basic maintenance costs of the institutions.

Support staff

“It is not just about teachers. It is also about support staff like those in security, the cleaners, and others who still have to work for these private schools,” he said.

Private schools have been struggling to get additional funding through online classes, but they are now saying the model is unsustainable, and parents have stopped paying since education CS George Magoha announced that schools will re-open in January 2021.

“Private school teachers are feeling lost,” says Elizabeth Atema, a teacher in Kayole, Nairobi.

On her post on social media, she recounted the personal struggles she is going through and was asking people to give her donations so she can meet her basic needs.

“I have even asked people if I can wash their clothes or do the house chores but they say I am a teacher. Our houses are being locked and nobody is willing to accommodate us,” she said.

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