THE OFF SWITCH 27
Bungoma County, Kenya
Independent field journalism on early childhood education

From Webuye Hills to the World

Daily reports from ECDE classrooms in Bungoma, the parents and teachers carrying them, and every move on Petition P.84 — tracked from committee room to county assembly.

DailyECDE field dispatches
P.84petition, filed 2024
0NGO or county funding

What we cover

On the ground, since day one
01

Daily ECDE field reports

Camera in real classrooms across Bungoma — the overcrowding, the missing materials, the teachers improvising with what's on hand. No script, no gatekeeper.

02

Parent & teacher voices

Unfiltered interviews with the people who show up every day: parents asking why their children sit on the floor, teachers asking why their pay doesn't reflect the work.

03

Petition P.84 tracking

Every mention in the Senate and the County Assembly, logged and explained in plain language — so the people the petition is about can follow it without a law degree.

Petition P.84 of 2024

Status: under review
Case file — ECDE Kenya

Justice for ECDE, as a fully funded basic education right.

Petition P.84 calls on Parliament to treat Early Childhood Development Education the same way it treats primary and secondary schooling — funded, staffed, and inspected as a right, not left to counties to manage on uneven budgets.

This page exists to keep that petition visible between hearings — because the classrooms it's about don't pause while it moves through committee.

Filed

Submitted in 2024 on behalf of ECDE teachers and parents in Bungoma County.

Tabled

Raised before the Senate and referred for committee consideration.

Tracked, ongoing

Every subsequent mention documented here and on the channel as it happens.

philip@theoffswitch27.com

Write in if you want the next hearing date, or if you're a teacher or parent with something to add to the file.

Keep this independent

Community-funded, on purpose

No NGO money

No donor sits between what's reported and what's true.

No county funding

The people the petition names aren't the ones paying for the coverage.

Funded by people watching

Every report is made possible by whoever's watching and chooses to chip in.

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