About 140 pupils study here every day, dancing with fate every time they walk through the gate in the morning. A nauseating pungent smell hangs in the air, the compound is flooded with sewer water, and pools of raw sewage rest calmly, but dangerously, inside classrooms and the staffroom. But it is a small school here, started 12 years ago, that could be the emblem of all that is wrong with Nairobi’s public health management. About 140 pupils study here every day, dancing with fate every time they walk through the gate in the morning. “This school has literally gone down the drain and nobody seems to care,” says Mr Oscar Ogaye, the administrator.

Source: Daily Nation July 19, 2017 21:56 UTC