How many more girls joined school since Free Primary Education was introduced?
Quite a lot of good things have happened since the pronouncement of FPE, but not without challenges. If you look at the eight provinces of Kenya each province has recorded some impact in FPE. The absolute number of one million two hundred thirty thousand children who came into the school after the introduction of free primary education, moved the gross enrolment from 5.9 to 7.2 billion children in the country. This was a big achievement and if you look at the people who really benefited from it were the poor as they were not able to afford education due to the levies and various constraints that were there before. However, looking at regions like Northeastern, the gross enrolment, did not improve by far. The gross enrolment for girls is 15.7 per cent and for boys is 23 per cent. The gross enrolment here refers to children regardless of age who took up the opportunity of free primary education. Looking at the coast province only 77.3 per cent of girls were enrolled after the introductio
