By Benedict Ng’etich
Teachers and old students have been urged to form active welfare groups to visit retired teachers in their rural homes.
Mr. Sammy Kamau, a long serving teacher at Highlands Primary School in Kericho said that the welfare groups will also help the members check on each other’s welfare.
“It might look and sound simple but the idea of visiting and checking on the welfare of our retired colleagues is very important. Loneliness in retirement is a great source of stress,” he said.
The teacher led a team of serving and retired teachers as well as 70 pupils from Highland Primary school in paying a visit to retired teacher Mr. Paul Koskei.
Mr. Koskei served at the school for 13 years and is credited for nurturing many students into excellence.
The visit to Mr. Koskei coincides with the infrastructural facelift worth Shs 70 million that the school is receiving from old students of Asian extraction, who started their early education at the school.
Mr. Koskei thanked the teachers and the students for remembering him and urged them to extend the visitation to other retired teachers.
