Although primary school fees have been abolished in Kenya, attendance isnt compulsary. Families are so poor (by our standards their level of poverty is beyond imagination) that a child in work - any work - brings some sort of relief. Those children lucky enough to have been given a taste of a better life from education only see it snatched away from them by the more pressing need to helping their family survive. Those who still lag behind are in an ever spiralling circle of despair and the glue helps to kill the hunger pangs and fight the cold