When Nelly Chepchumba returned to school this week, she found charred walls where her classroom used to be and two corpses half-buried in the garden. A place of learning had been consumed in the explosion of violence that followed a disputed presidential election in Kenya, according to AP. Thirteen-year-old Nelly poked through the grounds for old uniforms and missing shoes. She stepped over ripped-up spelling books. Old attendance sheets and a blackboard with the message «Don't hesitate to discipline children. A good spanking won't kill them!» served as reminders of the students who used to gather. «I'm jealous of other children who get to return to their classes,» Nelly said, standing in where her front-row seat used to be. «I fear I will forget all my lessons.» After weeks of violence, thousands of children cannot return to school because their classrooms were burned or looted or are housing refugees.
