Kenya: Child Labour, Marriage and Trafficking Keep Millions of Kenyans Out of School

By Katy Migiro – 

Millions of Kenyan children miss out on school because they are forced to work, are married or trafficked, the child rights charity Plan International said on Monday.

In Kenya, more than 80 percent of children attend primary school but less than half receive a secondary education, according to the United Nations children’s fund, which leaves them vulnerable to exploitation.

“Child marriage, child labour and child trafficking: we have a high correlation between those three areas and children not being in school,” Plan’s regional director Roland Angerer told a news conference.

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