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The battle to bring Kenya's warrior children back to school – a photo essay

Covid closures coincided with an initiation ceremony that has put many on a path out of education and set back years of progressPhotographs by Joost BastmeijerShortly after sunrise, three boys step off their motorcycle, pat the dust off their checkered shuka cloths, and enter their family’s boma – an enclosure built from thorny acacia branches in eastern Samburu.Now that they are morans, the teenagers are considered adults and are no longer permitted to sleep in their parents’ house. Instead, they go each evening to sleep in a nearby school building and return home in the morning. The school has been shut since the Covid-19 outbreak, and benches have been moved aside to make room for mattresses, and a makeshift kitchen. Continue reading...
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