By Iris Tay | Volunteer
Thank you for the donations received so far. We have raised $334 from the campaign and would require $1,000 to purchase our first batch of lamps.
Tana Delta has traditionally lagged at the tail-end of rankings in the Kenyan national exams. Reading and numerical skills of students in the Tana Delta are one of the lowest in the country. The off road communities bear the brunt of these disadvantages. Only a small monority of students from these communities progress to secondary school. Few economic opportunities exists for young men and women with only primary school education. Men are usually employed as casual labourers with little job security. Ladies often marry and have babies before adulthood. They are trapped in the cycle of poverty.
Currently kerosene lamps are used by some students to complete their school work in the evenings. These smoky lamps pose a fire hazard to the thatched roof homes and families suffer from smoke inhalation.
Tana River Life Foundation has started a trial of providing solar lamps to students at Buyani Secondary School. The results have been very encouraging. All the pioneer batch of students benefitted from the lamps and have successfully completed their secondary school education. This projects extends the trial to other schools in the most rural parts of the Tana Delta by providing these schools with lighted classrooms for students to do their homework and study in the evenings.
Through your generosity you are providing young people a much needed leg up in life through education.
Once again, thank you and please continue to support our project.
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