Education important issue for nomadic people in Kenya

Pastoralists across Africa want their children to have access to education that suits their nomadic lifestyles, representatives of pastoral communities said in Isiolo, Kenya. “The issue of the education curriculum is important to understanding pastoralism; imagine taking a lot of time to teach a child in Mandera [northern Kenya] how to plant beans when that child could be taught how to tan leather, given that it is the available resource,” Ali Wario, Kenya’s assistant minister for special programs in the office of the president, said July 9. Wario, who opened the three-day workshop attended by at least 70 participants, said “We must have mobile schools in pastoralist areas if children are to gain from the education system.” Read more at IRIN.