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Kiunga Primary, Lamu: a three-hour sitting near the border

Kiunga is far. The 2023 note mentions antelope and warthog on the road because that is what the road held, not because the story is a safari. The job was a three-hour training: how to put learners, attendance, learning areas, lesson plans, schemes, formative and summative work onto Kurasa.

Field note from a Kurasa regional lead, rewritten for this site in September 2026. Named adults and schools are those already published on mykurasa.com. Confirm they still wish to be named. This is not a 60 Decibels finding and not the 29 August 2026 homepage scale.

Adult teachers around tables in a coastal Kenyan classroom after hours.
Adult teachers around tables in a coastal Kenyan classroom after hours.

The sitting

Twenty people, three hours, one school.

Trainer
Eustace Gatenjwa
School
Kiunga Primary School, Lamu County
When
14 July 2023
In the room
Seventeen staff and three administrators

What went well

People asked questions. They ran the exercises. Practical documents — the ones a teacher already has to keep — made more sense with an example than with a slide. Some staff already knew AI-assisted planning; others were new. The session had to hold both.

What snagged

Intermittent internet. A moment when teacher details had to be captured under the administrator account. Not enough hours for the full syllabus of the product. Those snags are the job in a border school. Forty percent of teachers in the later 60 Decibels sample also hit a snag. Different year, same physics.

What we do not add

We do not claim Kiunga “went digital” after one afternoon. We do not show children’s faces from the original gallery. We do not turn wildlife into a brand motif.

A trainer and a teacher looking at a phone with no signal near a window.
A trainer and a teacher looking at a phone with no signal near a window.
A coastal school. Adult teachers at tables. Not a wildlife postcard. Not identifiable children.

Far schools

If it only works in Nairobi, it is not Kurasa.

Workspace has to survive a weak network. Training still has to fit in the hours the school actually has.