By Vincent Washika Atitwa | Project Leader
We believe that very child deserves an equal opportunity to education and no student should be left behind simply due to a lack of access to basic school necessities. With support from our donors, we are working to remove barriers to learning by providing full school uniforms to the students who need them most in local schools within our community.
We believe that every child is entitled to quality education that is affordable and accessible. Last week, we transitioned 200 students across 2 schools in our community by providing school uniforms, sanitary pads, toughees shoes and underwear to needy students. Our goal is to increase school enrolment and high school transition for about 1250 students this year. This program is helping parents to save the money that could have been used to buy school uniforms and use it to pay school fees. As a result, students are able to stay in school, focus on their studies and improve their academic performance.
“I love my school because of the good performance that keeps on improving each year and also the way the teachers conduct themselves. I love Physics, it’s my favorite subject. One good thing about uniforms is the way it attracts other students who dropped out of school to want to come back to school and learn, because they really admire how smartly the uniform looks on those of us who have them. I would like to be Engineer in the near future. The new uniforms I have will help me to avoid the issue of absenteeism. One challenge of lacking a proper uniform is being regarded as poor, something that is not good. Those are words from one of our project beneficiary in grade 9.
School uniform distribution initiative is a good one because of the following reasons,
1. It Increases students’ enrolment in participating schools.
2. It boosts students’ retentions by almost 100% in most participating school.
3. It boost good performance by students putting on new school uniforms, same students puts on good simile and build confidence in learners .
Thanks very much to all our donors who made this possible, the journey is still on, please let us move together in making sure that all students get new school uniforms and stay in school.
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