Covid-19 did not only close schools but it set in motion a ripple effect that is claiming chains of businesses and threatening to cripple the multi-billion-shilling school supplies sector. With the schools closed, the books business is technically grounded, with the deliveries made in first term largely unpaid for. He has since merged his school uniforms shop with the bookshop to reduce the rent he pays and other overheads. “I had supplied uniforms to schools that were yet to be paid when the government closed schools. FEED CHILDRENMr Boniface Nasitsi of Shibale Bookshop said the schools closed before he got paid for the supplies he had delivered.

Source: Daily Nation July 27, 2020 06:31 UTC