Hunger, poverty keep 1.8m Kenyan children out of school

• Delays by ministry in releasing funds also hurting the literacy campaign

“Our target is to have four teachers per sub-location, but we understand the current situation where the government is unable to give us additional teachers due to financial constraints,” the department’s director Joyce Kebathi told the Daily Nation.

The department has one centre per location and around 1,800 full-time teachers employed by the government, with around 3,000 more part-timers and volunteers paid a token allowance.