This archive report was first published on 10 July 2020.
On July 10, 2020, a group of government-employed teachers in Webuye made a heartwarming gesture by offering financial support to their colleagues in private schools and Board of Management (BOM) institutions.
The Teachers' Service Commission (TSC) employees under the umbrella Webuye Teachers Welfare donated food and other basic needs to their counterparts who had stopped receiving salaries after the closure of learning institutions due to COVID-19.
According to the group's administrator, Amos Wafula, the teachers were touched by the plight of their colleagues and raised concern that the government had not done much to cater for the welfare of educators not formally employed.
Wafula explained that the group, comprising over 420 members, contributed KSh 500 each and raised over KSh 200k, which they used to purchase foodstuffs and other basic needs for their colleagues.
He added that such programs will continue until the situation is normalized in the country, and that the welfare's humanitarian assistance for teachers under BOM and those in private schools was a precedent for government and other corporates to follow up with similar support gestures.
Wafula emphasized that the group's goal is to support the most vulnerable teachers until schools reopen.
