Improve a Pre-School for 60 Children in Kenya

As we begin a new year, the nursery pupils at Kiteghe Primary School can look forward to beginning the new school year in their fully upgraded nursery school as work on our redevelopment project enters its final stages.

The extension and upgrade of the main classroom building is complete apart from painting and glazing, which is on-going and due for completion in the coming days. The new toilet block has come up rapidly over the last couple of weeks and is also nearing completion.

We have begun to make preparations for the new playground area too, however we cannot install the equipment and do the groundworks until the existing toilets which currently occupy this area have been decommissioned and destroyed, and the area cleared, levelled and made safe. We will wait until the new toilets are operational before doing this! 

By the time our next report is due in April we fully expect all works to be complete and the nursery school to have re-opened, and we look forward to bringing you photos of the completed works as well as some messages from the school.

From all the team at African Promise and on behalf of the Kiteghe school community we wish you a very happy, healthy and peaceful new year for 2017.

In our last update we reported that work was due to start on this project in August and that it would be completed in two phases during the August and December school holidays.

Work began at the start of the August holiday as planned but a shorter than expected holiday (it was reduced by the government from the usual 4 weeks to just 2) meant that phase one works had to be extended into term time. As a result and following discussions with the headteacher we resolved to complete all the works in a single phase.

We are now at the end of the sixth week of the project and work is at an advanced stage and on course for completion around the end of October. We have reconfigured the existing building to create an extra third classroom and have built the walls of the new extension which will house the office and store. The walls of the existing parts of the building have been completed replastered on both the interior and exterior, and new windows and doors have been fitted. We are in the final stages of fixing new roofing sheets on this part of the building and will complete roofing works on the extension immediately thereafter.

We have decided also to undertake a wider upgrade of the whole nursery school environment and in addition to the works on the school itself we will also build a new toilet block, create a new playground area as well as do some hard landscaping works. All these works will be complete by the time school opens for the new year in January.