The load of buying books has always been so heavy to most parents. The struggle is usually real especially during school opening season when the book stores hike their prices.
The government promise to free education has not fully been visualized as parents still struggle to make students stay in schools.
But their is a sigh of relief.
Education Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed has on Monday flagged off distribution of competency-based curriculum books for Grade One to all public schools.
Three million Kiswahili and English Grade One books are set to be distributed to pupils by January 15, Ms Amina said.
An additional 60,000 teachers’ guides for the language textbooks will also be distributed.
Ms Amina flagged off for distribution 250,000 books to schools in Bungoma, Kakamega and Garissa counties.
The launch was held at the Kenya Literature Bureau offices in Nairobi.
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