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Home Reports and studies Getting an education in rural Kenya

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Getting an education in rural Kenya

The paper “Getting an education in rural Kenya: Findings based on the Kenya Financial Diaries” published by Jacobs Foundation in collaboration with FSD Kenya and BFA seeks to determine how much Kenyan families actually spend on education and which financial tools Kenyans deploy in obtaining an education for their children.