Kenya's vanishing rural schools - and why a new curriculum may be to blame - BBC News

More than 2,000 primary schools are facing closure as enrolment numbers plummet.

Image source, Wycliffe Muia / BBCImage caption, Kaliluni Primary School has lost most of its pupils over the last three years

On what should be a busy morning at Kaliluni Primary School in southern Kenya, only cows are in attendance, grazing between broken classroom doors that hang open to reveal rows of empty chairs.

Three years ago, more than 200 children filled this rural school with noise and activity. Now there are only five pupils - and on the day we visit they, and the only remaining teacher, are absent.

As we leave the dilapidated compound, with books strewn across the floors of some classrooms, we spot a schoolgirl in uniform walking forlornly towards her home.

Maureen Mwisiwa, 12, says she has been turning up to school for the past week to find herself on her own.