Empower, Engage, Educate in Rural Kenya!

Library Cards, Digital Teacher Training, Wings Poa, Deworming, Global Inventors STEAM class, Eyeglasses, Professional Learning Communities (PLC) Pen Pal letters and Books:  It's been a record breaking year in Wamunyu thanks to donors like you!

Launching the Kenya Connect Library Card and School Book Days program was one of our most exciting initiatives with 1,396 students and 45 adults receiving library cards at 14 partner schools.  Our Magic School bus traveled over 384 km delivering books for the 128 School Book Days held.   Our growing print collection has over 5,800 books with another 600 books on the way to Kenya.  A Parent's Literacy Council was formed and our staff is working to become #TheVillageThatReads!

"I love School Book Days and borrowing books from Kenya Connect!" --Mueni

This could be a very long report if we listed everything with narrative so we thought we would include some highlights.  In addtion to our library program, your support helped us with the following programs:

Technology Classes

• 103 students completed the Basic Computer Training Course
• 8 Level Up Village classes were held reaching a total of 152 students
• 222 Teachers were trained on how to use the Government Issued Tablets
• Over 100 of the trained teachers are using the Government Issued Tablets
• 708 tablets in 25 schools were installed with A-academy from Avalain Foundation

Teacher Professional Development

• 17 teachers participated in the new Professional Learning Community (PLC) program
• 17 teachers participated in Professional Development workshops         
• 222 teachers trained on using the Gov’t issued tablets
• 1 teacher participated in U.S. Embassy sponsored programs MOOCS
• 17 PLC teachers and over 100 teachers trained in Digital Learning Program are sharing what they learn with their peers in school
• 14 teachers participated in Cascading Knowledge professional development workshop

Leadership Programs

• 21 students completed the ACCESS Program
• 104 students participated in the Peace Ambassador Program
• 34 students participated in The School Fund programs

Breaking Down Barriers

• 81 Wings Poa Kits were distributed bringing our total to 263
• 6452 students and teachers were dewormed
• 38 schools making soap to continue use of hand washing stations
• 1 water tank was installed bringing our total to 50
• 9 eye screening sessions were held with 85 eyeglasses being distributed
• 1639 solar lights were distributed bringing our total to 5162
• 3,780 hours of studying and reading occurred due to solar lights for each of the 5,162 students with solar lamps

Cross Cultural

• 3740 Pen Pal letters exchanged
• 3 teams visited Wamunyu including students from Simmons University in March, teachers from Connecticut in June and a mixed team of professionals in October
• The Kenya Connect 5K was held in Wamunyu in October and Ellicott City in March
• James Musyoka presented at the Gupta Family Foundation Symposium

We are deeply grateful to you for helping to expand our students' horizons and for helping us to break down barriers to education while providing enrichment and empowerment programs to students and teachers at our 55 partner schools.

If you haven't made a gift this year, we invite you to make one now-- every dollar donated makes an impact.

On behalf of the entire Kenya Connect staff and Board, we wish you and your family a very happy holiday season.