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How fight over Gatoto primary threatens education for vulnerable children

Sign post at Gatoto school after the government take over [Juliet Omelo, Standard]

For more than three decades, Gatoto Community Primary School has been a beacon of hope for children from Nairobi’s informal settlement of Mukuru kwa Reuben. 

Established in 1994, the school was designed to serve vulnerable learners, including orphans, children from low-income families, and those with disabilities, offering free education, meals and pathways to secondary and tertiary education.

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