Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu has said the ministry is working closely with MPs to ensure infrastructure destroyed by floods is replaced in schools.
Machogu said MPs have started receiving allocations from the National Government- Community Development Fund to undertake rehabilitation of damaged schools.
"We are waiting for a supplementary budget which is being discussed in Parliament. Also, MPs have been given funding from NG-CDF," he said.
Machogu said the minimum each constituency was given this last week for reconstruction was Sh18 million.
"The priority now is to rehabilitate whatever infrastructure that was destroyed by the floods," the CS said.
Machogu said the ministry has mapped out the specific schools that need rehabilitation following the floods.
"We have a breakdown of the number of schools damaged and the facilities that will require rehabilitation and the specific schools affected," he said.
Heavy rains and floods destroyed at least 62 primary schools across the country.
The rains also left more than 15,000 children with nowhere to learn by the time schools were reopening, according to an assessment by Save the Child and the Ministry of Education.
The floods brought fears of water-related diseases spreading among learners due to contamination.
The floods killed more than 250 people and displaced over 250,000 people since mid-March.
School reopening was even postponed twice to ensure children’s safety.
The assessment also indicated that over 20,000 toilet blocks were either sunken or severely damaged by floodwaters.
"This posed serious health risks to over 1.5 million school children across the country," the assessment said.
