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The pain of lost salaries to 227,000 private teachers, the families, and economy

Private Schools Association CEO Peter Ndoro during a transform Kenya forum at Strathmore University. [Beverlyne Musili/Standard]

The burden on Jane Wambua’s shoulders has squeezed happiness from her face, replacing it with long and deep wrinkles.

The 30-year-old teacher stares blankly in the air and strains to catch an echo of the last question put to her during the interview.  

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