By Kwamboka Okari | Founder and Executive Director
Greetings from Kisii,
As I write this update, I know schools in the US are just beginning to reopen, many virtually. As I mentioned in my last update, schools in Kenya have been closed since March and we do not expect to reopen until January, which is when the Kenyan school year typically starts. This means our students will all end up delayed a year in their academics (so students who started in fourth grade this past January will have to start fourth grade again once we are able to reopen).
As you know, our focus is educating children who come from poor families and difficult backgrounds, many of them orphans. When you have vulnerable kids like ours, they can fall very far behind during a time like this. Unlike better off children in Kenya, our students don't have access to laptops or even smart phones, so virtual learning options simply don’t exist. Since it looks like schools will remain closed for the next four months, we are trying to figure out ways to continue engaging our kids and exercising their brains. We've already begun issuing assingments to some of our older students that teachers collect and review. But these are challenging times indeed and it is not easy. Still, we are doing our best to learn as we go.
We are so very grateful for your friendship and support and look forward to the day when our kids are able to return to school and learn together, eat together, play together. In the meantime, we hope you are managing under the strain of this global pandemic and are finding ways to enjoy your days and your loved ones.
Many thanks,
Kwamboka
By Kwamboka Okari | Founder and Executive Director
By Kwamboka Okari | Executive Director
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