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From books to grass: How Friends Bulovi School collapsed

Friends School Bulovi is among the 10 schools that was closed by the Ministry of Education due to low enrolment of students. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

The once-bustling Friends Bulovi Secondary School in Shinyalu Constituency, Kakamega County, is a shell of its former self.

The walls are cracked, and the compound has become a cattle-grazing ground. Desks and textbooks lie locked behind rusty doors with dream of learners collapsing in silence.

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