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Links to our Projects Education
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Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it. Hope and Kindess was founded by two teachers so it is not surprising that education is at the heart of our work.
Education has long been acknowledged as a universal human right. The second United Nations Millenium Development Goal is to Achieve Universal Primary Education. Hope and Kindness is working hard to inprove access to good quality primary education for orphaned and vulnerable children in Kosele. We now have five custom purpose built classrooms for our pupils. This gives them the space to learn in and allows their teachers to teach effectively.
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"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." "Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them." "In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."
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Challenges in the year ahead Our biggest challenge next year will be to make sure we prepare our Standard 8 pupils for their KCPE (Kenya Certificate of Primary Education) exam. This is an important exam in Kenya because it is the springboard on to High School and, eventually, University for those who can afford it. We hope to send a good number of our Standard 8 class to High school. We will be setting the bar high for these pupils as simply finishing high school does not guarantee a better future. As many young people in developed countries are finding, a universitry degree is rapidly becoming the entry level for white collar work. High school students who pass the high school exams with a B+ grade qualify for a government loan to attend university. We will be looking for potential to achieve this level in our year 8 pupils before we consider funding them for High School. We will be setting up a Rural Training Programme for those children who do not achieve a high grade in their KCPE in November. The Rural Training Programme will start in January 2012. |
Our Standard 8 class - preparing for the KCPE this year. |
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New teachers - what a team! In August 2010 we appointed 5 new teachers for our primary school. So far we have been very encouraged by them. They are working hard to make sure the pupils fulfil their potential. Everybody knows how important is is to get the right start in life. Being taught by an inspiring teacher helps any child to get off to a flying start. Thanks to our friends from Cisco we have been able to equip the school with new laptop computers and have started training the teachers to use them for their teaching and administration. Everybody who is involved in our school is determined to make sure the children receive the highest quality education. Attending a good school is every child's right. |
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More classrooms needed ASAP It's still hard to believe how far we have come with our work since we started Hope and Kindness. The generosity and hard work of our sponsors and supporters has enabled us to build 6 really good classrooms for our school. To really achieve our dream of running a fully equipped primary school, teaching children from Nursery to Standard 8, we still need 4 more classrooms. We hope to add these to our school in the current year. They will cost about £25,000, ($40,000), to build and equip. Once the new classrooms are up and running we will be able to accomodate 270 pupils in our school, (roughly double the number of children attending the school at present). Thanks to the generosity and sacrifice of one family in the UK we have been able to build a new classroom for our nursery class. The picture on the right shows the foundations being laid in August 2010. The children will start using the new classroom in February (building projects can take a long time to push to completion!). |
We need to get these guys back as soon as we can! |
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