We support three government-run elementary and junior high schools in Northeastern Samburu. By building 10 dormitories and offering free room and board to all students, children of nomadic families can attend school all year long. We provide the majority of the funding for these students.
We are pleased to say that our ELEMENTARY schools are becoming among the best in Kenya.
The successful preschools helped enable more students to enroll in the three local elementary schools managed by the government. In order to attend school on a regular basis, students needed the option to board at school since their nomadic families would often be far away from the location of the government schools. There were no dormitories, the school buildings were falling down and the students lacked even the most basic essential supplies.
we took on the challenge of improving INFRASTRUCTURE + THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION
In 2017 Kenya introduced a new school system, so called Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) with the following structure: 2 years of preschool, 6 years of elementary school, 3 years of junior high and 3 years of senior high school. This in practice added an extra grade to each of our elementary schools, which now have to accommodate 9 grades.
