Return vulnerable children from Kibera to School

Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s afternoon have become an exciting time for children at our transition programme. Every class gets to engage in fun learning activities with young and energetic volunteers from our partners, Vitabu Vyetu. Vitabu Vyetu works towards improving literacy levels for children aged 3-13 from urban slums in Kenya through tailor made reading clubs program.

The sessions carry on the fun spirit already alive in the school. In one class you hear children singing; in another the sound of giggles and when you peek at another you see children engaging their creative side as they learn. When it couldn’t get any more exciting, our newest partners, Kukua, who we met through Vitabu Vyetu, Introduced technology into the sessions.

Kukua is an organisation that combines technology and entertainment as a means of advancing learning for children. They have a number of products and we got to try Sema Run and Sema Trace; literacy games that target children between the age of 3-6 and help the children learn the alphabet sounds and how to write them. Our kids had the first go during last week’s session and the excitement on their faces could not be contained. The joy of getting through a level was crowned by taking selfies with the phones and tablets provided by Kukua and jazzing them up with stickers.

We can only imagine the stories they told their family and friends that evening and the sense of accomplishment they felt after every level. We are grateful for the opportunity to expose our students to the benefits of technology and how it can make learning fun. We hope that this is a lesson they can carry through their lives.