By Harvey Long | Volunteer
Victoria Ouma is one of the many girls to benefit from the two-fold education at Ondati Girls Secondary School in Kenya. Her favourite subjects are agriculture, business, history, religion, and kiswahili. Her goal is to go overseas to university to study business or history. She acknowledges that she gets a more diverse education than those at other Kenyan schools. In addition, she finds the extra business lessons and workshops scheduled at Ondati “really interesting”.
All the students at Ondati are divided into project groups. Victoria is in the tree nursery group and was elected as the leader of the group. She is responsible for motivating fellow students and ensuring that they contribute to the manual work in the project, as well as keeping the project register up to date. Victoria says she has learnt many things from the project since being at the school, such as how to bud and graft fruit trees, how to prepare a seed bed and plant new seedlings, and how to manage the nursery. She has also been able to learn about the challenges and realises that businesses require a lot of attention and hard work. The trees need regular watering, especially during the dry season, and also must be protected from animals (especially the school dairy herd who enjoy the odd tree to munch on!).
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