MORE than 400 pupils at three primary schools in Baringo county are learning out- side their classrooms because of damage caused by heavy rains.
Some 110 pupils at Kogorwonin Primary School in Baringo Central are being taught outside after strong winds and rain destroyed their six class- rooms on Friday last week.
Head teacher Willy Chepchieng said no one was injured in the 4.30pm incident as the pupils and teachers had already gone home. He blamed the destruction on sloppy terrain and old school buildings.
Chepchieng said the timber- walled classrooms were constructed in 1993. At the same time, 174 pupils of Salabani Primary School in Marigat subcounty are also studying outside after they were displaced two years ago by rising level of Lake Baringo. In Tiaty subounty more than 130 pupils of Katuwit Primary School are studying on top of their desks after their classrooms got flooded following the heavy rainfall in the area.
The Ministry of Education led by the County Executive Committee’s Emily Kibet, toured the schools on Saturday to access the situation and donated 800 iron sheets for repair of the school structures.
