Help Build 8 Classrooms Destroyed By Flood Waters.

The schools have been closed since March 2020 and the children have stayed at home for all this time. this was occasioned by the Corona Pandemic. The chidlren have been with their parents for the longest time ever. Now Its good news here in kenya as teh govrenment have partially re openned schools for learners in Grade four and class eight, these are those whom are preparing to sit their national examinations and they have been allowed back to school after over seven months staying at hoem due to the COVID 19 Pandemic. 

All our teachers have reported back to school to start teaching this lot of pupils and we recieved all of them and we never lost any pupils due to covid 19 or any other ailments and learning has started off so well from last month. these candidates are preparing themselves for the end of year examinatiosn which will be carried on in the month of April 2021. These lot were to sit fr the final exams in the mnth of novermber but had been pushed forward to teh month of April 2021.

We have also recieved grant from a local non governmental organization here in kenya which have partnered with us to help us build two more classes for ECD pupils. The organization known as KCDF has been able to grant us 1million kenya shillings which is a matching grant for the rebuilding of the two classes. We mobilised teh half of the total amount which they offered to match for us and in total we shall be constructing two new claases at a cst of 2 Million kenya shiling which is equivalent to 20,000 USD. Once complted the two classrooms would host all our ECDE pupils since their classroom went down last year and thesze children have been learning outside on the shades of the trees. We do hope by the time schools fully opens in january these two classrooms would host our small children learning in ECD. 

It’s been now over four months since the government of Kenya closed all the schools in the country following the outbreak of this corona disease and life hasn’t been so easy for most of the children staying at home with their parents including the ones that would be sitting for their last examinations latter tis year. Its been ahrd for them to stay at home without any learning going on.

This disease has brought learning in Kenya to a halt and hence the children have nothing to do at home, the school will reopen once the government gives a directive on what is to be done before the reopening of the schools herein Kenya. This has affected our learning calendar especially with the national examinations candidates whom are not certain when they would be sitting for their end of primary education examinations which was scheduled to be done in the month of  November this year.

So far we are at the Fourth classroom and we still have four to go as we needed a total of eight classrooms for all our children to have descent water proof classrooms.To give you an update on the building of our new classrooms we are still mobilizing materials and resources for the faur remaining classrooms, and this month we got good news from one of the organizations in Kenya which has agreed to partner with us to build to support in buiding two nursery classrooms which went down due to the floods this year and these two classes would house the smallest children in the school. They will be used for Early childhood Development centre, the organization has agreed to fund us to the tune of $100,000 USD on conditional grant that we must also raise the similar amount so that we will be able to build these two classroom of our ECD children. This comes amid Covid 19 pandemic and the challenge on our side is how we would raise this prerequisite amount from our side so that we could access these funds for doing the two classes but we do hope for the best as we reach out to well-wishers around here in Kenya and beyond.

Its my humble oppinion that we must move with speed before the government opens the schools in their new academic calender after covid. In this way we have all the time to enable us get well prepared for the social distancing in schools which will imply we have the required numebr of children per class. Seems even children in government school would be reduced hence the number of children coming to our school would increase signiaficantly hence the demand to have all these classes ready for this eventuality.

 James