By Judith Opieba | Project Leader
Mwiyenga Primary School staff want to offer our sincere gratitude and appreciation for the love, generosity, compassion, kindness and continued support you have accorded us. You have been a blessing to the school and the entire community. We now have a smooth-running school without interruption as it was earlier when pupils had to go for water and come back late. The water challenges are over and pupils have enough time to learn without disruption. Due to this, our performance keeps on improving and thus we are attracting purposeful people to help the school. Our school had been neglected due to poor performance. As I write to you now, four new classrooms have been built, two for kindergarten and two for the senior pupils.
We are now seen as being a child-friendly school with good performance which we feel is being achieved through the practice of the Five Strategies of The Virtues Project. Our boys and girls that have graduated from our primary school have continued to show their prowess in academics with continued commitment and purposefulness that they practiced and honed in primary school. One of our foster children emerged second out of 133 students at Kilimo Secondary School and gave a speech on coping with adolescence by practicing assertiveness, self-control, and respect.
With your support, we were able to build structures to raise rabbits and chickens at the school and this has really boosted our benevolent kitty which helps feed and provides uniforms for the orphans. This year several orphans sat for their exams. Our worry is how to help them pay tuition for secondary school. We, therefore, ask for your continued financial support so that we can help them go on to secondary school and brighter futures. Secondary school education costs 33,000 shillings for a county school up to 56,000 shillings for a national school (approximately $330.00-560.00 USD). Primary school is 8,000 shillings per year ($80.00 USD). Uniforms are 10,000 shillings for secondary and 1,000 shillings for primary school students ($100 and $10.00 respectively).
I frequently visit Kilimo Girls School to offer guidance and counseling since our school is a role model. There have been no early pregnancies for the last five years which is due to the practice of Virtues. We do a Virtues Pick every day in classes for the Virtues of the Day and every Monday on the assembly for the Virtue of the Week. Virtues club members continue meeting and sharing experiences and encouraging each other on Tuesdays.
We continue to support one another in our community through a compassionate support game and on November 23rd we are going to neighboring Vihiga community to support them.
Please help us continue to grow our benevolent kitty so that we can keep putting smiles on our orphan's faces by providing meals, school supplies and education. Thank you all for your consideration of our requests, your kindness and compassion, and above all, your generosity and love. May you be blessed abundantly and may we all continue spreading virtues far and wide.
By Judith Opieba | Project Leader
By Judith Opieba | Project Leader
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