Globally, and Kenya in particular, learning has been negatively impacted by COVID-19 .In response to the rise of corona virus cases in Kenya ,the government of Kenya temporarily closed all schools in an attempt to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Right now, the COVID-19 pandemic is hugely on the rise and expected to reach its peak by October 2020. Naturally, our project work is impacted as well due to very reduced capacities in our partner institutions but also for the sake of health and safety of our staff members and project partners.
From the beginning of DGRV’s interventions in Kenya, The Co-operative University of Kenya (CUK) is one of our main national project partners. The University had to close all its campus sites since Corona was reported in Kenya (March 2020). While the operations are still on hold, CUK currently implements a health and safety concept to allow students to take up their studies again in a safe environment by September 2020. In this regard, DGRV assisted CUK to equip their main campus with „Social distance reminders“ which were designed to demonstrate the need for keeping distance between one person and another. During that engagement we covered 1200 m of corridor,offices, lecture halls,dispensary, entrances and canteens with specially produced floor stickers to contribute to CUK’s reopening preparation later this year.
This will go a long way as they beginning to plan for recovery, a phase that involves much more than reopening the gates and readmitting students.
