DUBAI — A maths and physics teacher from a secondary school in a remote village in Kenya's Rift Valley has won the $1 million Global Teacher Prize for 2019, organisers have said. All this combined, it said in a statement, "has led his poorly-resource school in remote rural Kenya to emerge victorious after taking on the country's best schools in national science competitions." Tabichi, 36, teaches at the Keriko Mixed Day Secondary School in Pwani village, in a remote, semi-arid part of Kenya's Rift Valley, where drought and famine are frequent. "Drug abuse, teenage pregnancies, dropping out early from school, young marriages and suicide are common." To get to school, some students have to walk seven kilometers (four miles) along roads that become impassable during the rainy season.

Source: Philippine Star March 24, 2019 20:26 UTC