Kenya The majority of the schools in Muhuru Bay, Kenya do not have access to electricity; students are forced to limit their study hours to times when the sun is bright enough to feed into the classrooms and naturally illuminate their tattered workbooks. This greatly limits students’ ability to excel academically because they also have responsibilities at home, such as fishing for boys and cooking, fetching water, or helping younger sibilings for girls. As a result, many teens drop out before secondary school in order to dedicate themselves entirely to these traditional labors. It is rare to see as much concentration in an older student’s body language, alone in his private studies, as demonstrated by this boy.
WISER - Kenya Photo by Bridget Larson ’10