| dc.description.abstract | The main purpose of this study was to establish the factors affecting primary
school participation by vulnerable children in Municipality Division of
Kiambu County. The objectives were to investigate the effect of family socioeconomic
background, learner characteristics and school factors on primary
school participation by vulnerable children in Municipality Division of
Kiambu County. The study adopted a descriptive research design. Data was
collected from 4 head teachers, 133 vulnerable children in class 7 and the
coordinator Life Skills Empowerment Association in four primary schools
which were purposively sampled because, they are under Life Skills
Empowerment Association.
The study found out that most of the pupils’ were from single parent families.
Pupils performed chores such as cooking, fetching water and caring for their
younger siblings on daily basis before and after school. Factors that made
children stay away from the school included poverty in terms of lack of food,
lack of parental care, psychological torture by some teachers and sickness of
parents.
The study recommends that, the government needs to provide the vulnerable
children with school requirements, categorize the vulnerable children as
children with special needs in education. School feeding programme should be
set up to cater for all the vulnerable children. The study recommends that a
similar study could be carried out in other counties to find out whether the
same results will be obtained so as to allow for generalization of results. | |
