By Turk Pipkin | Project Leader
Among the joys of working with a great community partner are the reports that come in with good news – big and small - that often seems to follow so directly on previous work with the school.
As for the big news – principal Jane Wairimu reports that Mahiga is now in the top ten high schools in the district. Kenyan Secondary schools are divided into two main categories... private (PV) and public (PB). The Public Day schools are categorized with boarding and without. Among 18 Public Secondaries without boarding facilities, Mahiga Hope High School is now rated #2. This is fantastic news and we want to congratulate all the staff and students on first place results in Mathematics, English and Geography, and second place in Business and Biology.
“On behalf of all the Mahiga Hope Family, I most sincerely thank all of you for the continued support you have given us,” Jane Wairimu reports. ”We promise to move Mahiga to greater heights and we are proud to be associated with you.
One of our long-term goals with the community is to build teacher housing and girls and boys dorms that will further elevate the level of education in this growing rural location.
On the small news side – when we were working with the community to complete the high school, we built a kitchen with high-efficiency wood stoves that are now serving healthy meals for nearly 700 kids from preschool to grade 12. We also built a new dining hall but didn’t have funds for dining tables and chairs, so it was a delight to also receive these pics of the new dining hall furniture the school managed to purchase this year.
Christy and I and a team of Nobelity Project Board Members and supporters will be visiting Mahiga and a dozen other partner schools in Kenya in a few weeks. Please check with us here, on facebook and at nobelity.org for reports.
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