By K McLullich | Fundraiser
It has been a successful start to the year for the KiMMta team and their education programmes.
9 students from the Early Childhood Development programme have reached a level where they have now been able to graduate and join primary school.
At the other end of the scale, 55 students who had completed their primary education received the results for their KCPE (Kenya Certificate of Primary Education) exams. The top student was Evans who scored an amazing 400 out of 500 marks. This is a great achievement. Another 24 students scored over 300 marks, proving that KiMMta’s programme is making a difference.
The numbers are great but to show the impact of KiMMta’s work from the students’ perspective we carried out a survey among a small group of the children and youths who use the resource centre for after-school tuition.
This is a sample of their comments:
"In school teachers don't have enough time to teach one student but in afterschool tuition maybe if we have a problem we can call one teacher as other students continue with other teachers..." Ephy, aged 14
"The afterschool teachers help me with anything and most things we are not taught or we do not fully understand in our different schools. There are teachers who teach us here. I also get help in my education from peers." Evans, 14
"In our school we around three thousand pupils so if the teacher has taught us something and if you have not fully understood he/she cannot repeat. So here in KiMMta you have many teachers who can assist you. In our home we do not have enough light to read so I always come to KiMMta to read. I have improved my performance in school and I always be the highest in class." Mary, 11
"The struggles I had was space to study because at home you find no fuel (for lights) sometimes, a lot of work at home and so many others but afterschool programme has helped a lot. I have the time, space and requirements needed to complete my homework. I would like to request if this afterschool programme would be increased in other communities to help people develop and become future presidents...." Davis, 17
We would like to thank everyone who has helped Ephy, Evans, Mary, Davis and hundreds of other students by supporting KiMMta through GlobalGiving.
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