{"id":91569,"date":"2026-07-04T17:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T17:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=91569"},"modified":"2026-07-04T17:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T17:56:15","slug":"more-cows-than-pupils-what-is-behind-mass-school-closures-in-rural-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/04\/more-cows-than-pupils-what-is-behind-mass-school-closures-in-rural-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"More cows than pupils &#8211; what is behind mass school closures in rural Kenya?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/1504\/cpsprodpb\/fbed\/live\/11e4c300-76e1-11f1-b976-0b9c15b0ccfc.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl points across a grassy field in Kaliluni primary where several cows are grazing, with school buildings and large trees in the background\" width=\"692\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">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. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cy72mn3m7l3o\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>On what should be a busy morning at Kaliluni Primary School in southern Kenya, only cows are in attendance, grazing between broken&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cows-in-schools-Keny.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91571,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91569\/revisions\/91571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}