Parent purchase text books for their children at Bigwa Bookshop along Tom Mboya Street in Nairobi. PHOTO | JEFF ANGOTEA popular Facebook group page is helping mothers connect and swap text books for use by their children before schools reopen for the new year. Kilimani Mums is making it possible for mothers with class one text books to sell them to those with children joining the class next year then using the proceeds to buy class two books from other mothers at half the price. Most parents shop for text books in December as they prepare to take their children to the next class. But the frequency with which the Kenyan education system changes the syllabus often renders some books outdated with time.

Source: Daily Nation November 23, 2016 13:22 UTC