Help 50 Maasai girls get education, not husbands

7 years of consistent donor support for Nenkashe Education Centre has birthed Nenkashe Primary School, the first primary school in Inkiwanjani village.

We established Nenkashe Primary School in January 2022 and registered it with the Ministry of Education.  The new school follows the new government enforced Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) where learning is based on the needs and potential of individual learners under flexible framework and parameters that move and shift according to the learner’s needs.

The government introduced CBC system to replace the 8-4-4 education system because it rightly felt that most Kenyans wanted their education system to promote application rather than mere acquisition of knowledge, which is the perceived focus of 8-4-4 education system. The government has posted four teachers to Nenkashe Primary School to demonstrate their support for the school and the new CBC curriculum. 

However, CBC is expensive to implement and we have faced many infrastructural challenges.

• We currently have 105 students enrolled in Pre-Primary 1 to grade five. 

• Our five classrooms are temporary iron sheet structures that need to be replace with permanent building.

• Our two toilets serve pupils, teachers and school visitors.  We need more toilets.

• We have one 5,000-litre tank that collects rainwater and when that is all used up, we replenish the tank by buying water delivered by commercial water trucks.

• Teachers operate from Kajiado town because of lack of teacher housing.

• The school is partially fenced because we could only afford to fence a small section.  We need to fence off the entire primary school property.

Our urgent need for now is to build a permanent Grade 6 classroom for use in January 2023 when the new academic year begins.  We will raise special project funding requests through GlobalGiving for these needs and pray that you will support us bring Nenkashe Primary School up to standard. 

Thank you for your support and prayers.