Our Lady of Mercy is twinned with schools in the UK and Ghana through the British Council's Connecting Classrooms scheme.

Jamu, Grace, Purity, Pholeta, and Olive, Our Lady of Mercy pupils aged 16 and 17 years, school talk about the impact of last year's post-election violence on their lives.

"They should see each other as Kenyans"

Our area was a hot spot for post election violence.

Many people got killed, in fact I saw one person getting killed - his head cut off.

I would see some people moving with machetes and they were killing people. 

It traumatised me for a long time and I was not even able to get out of the house for one month. 

I think the citizens have the bigger stake in this because they were the ones who perpetrated the post election violence.

I think that the citizens should change their perspective.  Instead of seeing each other as Kikuyu or Luo, they should see each other as Kenyans.

"Our property was taken away"

I was at Kibera [during the post-election violence].   The challenges were so many. 

One of them was that our property was taken away and most of the girls my age were sexually abused.

It was so painful to sleep outside at night which I am not used to. 

I feel so bad; it has been so bad and I don't feel that such kind of elections should happen again in my life.

"I could not reach school"

People were involved in some clashes. Some people died and that really affected me.

The challenges that I faced was mostly due to transport.  Most of the buses were banned. 

I feel terrible because that affected my studies.  I could not reach school.  I found people have moved on in syllabus and I was really behind.

"It  was not supposed to happen like that"

I was in Dangora at that time.  

I had finished my class 8 and I was not able to go to school because there was insecurity and there was no transport.

I feel bad because they lost a lot of things including lives and property.

It was hard travelling from one place to another.  Going to school it was hard when children were killed in the post election violence.

I feel bad because it was not supposed to happen like that.  I think it was better if the government had just controlled the elections and done it fairly so that no one should get hurt. 

How did they do this?

Our Lady of Mercy Secondary School, Embakasi Girls Secondary School, and Kayole Secondary School in Kenya, Anderson High School, Mid Yell Junior High School and Baltasound Junior High School in Scotland and  Headlines Educational Institute, Shooting Star Academy and Atasomnase M /A Secondary School in Ghana are all working together as a Connecting Classrooms partnership.  Find out more about the British Council's Connecting Classrooms programme.

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