By any measure, the enrolment of over a million extra children in Kenya’s primary school system over the past two years is a success story. Enrolment figures in the East African country burgeoned after President Mwai Kibaki introduced free primary education in 2003, when he took over as head of state from Daniel arap Moi. One group of children has little to cheer about in this regard, however, namely child workers. Rights activists warn that government will have to couple its policy of free primary schooling with laws making education compulsory if these children are to be brought in from the cold.