This project will strengthen 50 rural community schools in western Kenya, where many children still struggle to read and feel unsafe at school. Pursue will train teachers and school leaders, run parent workshops, and provide mobile libraries to improve literacy, promote positive discipline, and ensure every child learns in a safe and supportive environment.
In rural Kakamega County, Kenya, many children attend low-cost community schools with untrained teachers, limited resources, and use of corporal punishment. As a result, one-third of Grade 1-3 students cannot read a basic word. Without strong foundational skills, children struggle to progress academically, reducing their chances of securing stable future opportunities.
Pursue strengthens community school systems so every child can learn and thrive. Through our work with school leaders, teachers, parents and students, we focus on improving Literacy, Safeguarding, Quality Teaching and School leadership. This is done through training and coaching for teachers and school leaders; parent workshops; and a mobile library that visits each school regularly in an area where 70% of children don't have a single book at home.
We have already seen incredible impact, like a 66% increase in literacy rates, and a 39% decrease in corporal punishment. Behind every statistic is a child's life changed for the better, through ensuring they have access to reading books; engaging lessons; and supportive parents and teachers. Improving children's learning outcomes at a young age forms the foundation for future success; enabling children to go on to make transformational changes within their own communities and further afield.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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