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MZESA DAY CARE CENTER

P.O BOX 75941-00200

NAIROBI

                                                                                                                                                                                 11/03/2011 

FIRST TERM REPORT

First of all acknowledge greeting from all at Mzesa Day Care Center Primary and Nursery School. We take this opportunity to wish you a very Happy Easter and the Blessing at Peace, Joy and Love of the Risen Lord.

 IMPORTANT DATES

        i.            School opened on 3^rd January 2011.

      ii.            Mid of the Term Exams 15^th -18^th February 2011

    iii.            End of the Term Exams 28^th 30^th March 2011

    iv.            Open Day 5^th April2011 guardians  to collect reports books

      v.            The School Closes on 6^th April 2011

 ACTIVITIES

        i.            Parents attended class meetings during the month of January 2011.

       ii.            Students’ performance in the mid exams was excellent but we need to improve on the upper classes on mean score, math and science.

     iii.            School participated in sports at zonal level organized by Embakasi Non formal school cluster.

  CHALLENGES

                                i.            We have no resources to add more classrooms for standard seven and eight, though we painted all the classes,  the floors of the classrooms are in bad state.  We need to repair them.

                               ii.            Since we are approaching the rainy season, the area drainage system  has to be reopened during the month of April 2011/ first term.

                             iii.            We have purchased enough food stuff but will be exhausted by early May and the children  lunch have prices for food stuff has  increased.   There are many poor children around us who are deprival of  education due to poverty and other circumstances.  We feel it is our join responsibility to help these poor deprived children with  everything; food, clothing and as usual with medicines.

                            iv.            When we increase pupils who don’t pay anything for education, we get challenges on how to pay our teachers, and with inflation skew rocketing we end up losing good teachers who go  to greener pasture.   These destabilize the upper classes who are preparing to do STD 8 exams.

                               v.            Lastly, the school has no money for any expansion we need to build more classrooms and employ more teachers to meet requirement of the community,  but due to lack of funds, everything is at stand-still.

Lastly, we sincerely thank our donors who have enabled us face the challenges of the first term in terms of food and payment of our teachers salary, we need at least Kshs.80, 000/= per month for things to run smoothly. This is  just monthly expenditure to run the school.