“Every school day, Abdirizack Hussein Bashir rises at dawn for an eight-kilometer (five-mile) trek through a dangerous forest where he sometimes faces harassment by Kenyan army patrols hunting down extremists.Now the 12-year-old’s dream to become a doctor is threatened. Attacks by the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab against non-Muslims have forced the transfer of hundreds of teachers from the border area with Somalia, where the extremist group is based. Schools have closed and thousands of children are affected.” That was a little part from my article that shows just part of how civilians everyday lives are affected in Kenya by this terrorist group. At least 224 primary schools and 42 secondary schools in Wajir County can no longer function after non-local teachers fled. The exodus was caused by the Feb. 16 al-Shabab attack on a primary school in which two non-Muslim teachers were killed. These attacks happen everyday and the news doesn’t catch it sometimes, but when they do its always something awful. “It is the largest-ever mass exodus of teachers from the region, observers say” Hearing about how teachers have to leave schools just to make sure they’re safe and their students are safe is truly heartbreaking. Kids deserve to go get an education and feel safe about going to school.
