By Abdirashid Ali | Project Leader
Dear friends,
It has been a remarkable three months at Elwak Girls Primary School. It's the final term for students in class eight, and this week, they have started the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE). Due to industrial disputes between the national government and the teaching unions, there were a bit of disruption to the lessons for all schools in the country. Fortunately for us, we were able to find replacement teachers to carry on lessons during the strike. The children have been well prepared and hopefully based on the ongoing assessments results; they should do well in the test. We thank you for providing us with the means to provide this support.
The examination results will be out in January, and we are working hard to ensure all the girls who have completed their primary education transition to secondary schools successfully.
We are planning to organise a prize giving day in January to celebrate their successes and to use that opportunity to lobby the members of Constituency Development Funds and the County Government to sponsor girls who secure admission to secondary schools.
The girls have been making good progress the past three months. Every month, they are being tested, and the results are quite impressive. Collectively, the intervention has seen the average score for each subject go up by up to 29 marks. Mathematics and Kiswahili have particularly registered a good improvement, with Mathematics score going by 29 marks and Kiswahili by 28 marks this term.
As mentioned in our last report, a team of volunteers at Dentsu Aegis Network embarked on 620Km Bike ride to support our project, and we expect to receive about €5000 for our project. Again this support wouldn't have been possible without your support. Thank you very much.
Also, we recently applied and secured a grant of £10,000 from GlobalGiving to expand our project activities and increase the number of beneficiaries. The microcredit scheme component of the project is equally doing well and last month we launched it as a separate project and with the help of our supporters and the 50% match funding from GlobalGiving we have raised just under £1500. Thank again for supporting our projects.
In our next report, we shall share with you personal stories of our girls in more detailed. Thank you again for the confidence you have shown in our project.
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