Empower, Engage, Educate in Rural Kenya!

There's excitement brewing in Wamunyu!  It's the third and final term of the Kenyan School Year and students in Wamunyu are eagerly engaging in our expanded programs!

Partner Level Up Village (LUV) has introduced new STEM classes for upper primary students.  Thanks to a LUV grant, Kenya Connect has purchased 20 new chromebooks to help us deliver interactive classes including Global Water Crisis, Global Inventors, Global Scientists and Global Doctors DNA.  Through this program, Director of Technology Patrick Munguti, will be guiding Wamunyu students in partnership with children in the U.S. on learning about these important topics.  This week students at Maakula Primary School were the first students to pilot using the chromebooks and the new class, Global Water Crisis.  Included in this class is guest discussions with water engineers from Kenya and the U.S. The goal is to provide practical information on the challenge of clean water while providing students the opportunity to develop innovations!  In the upcoming weeks we will be introducing Global Acoustic Musician with 40 classes of grade 1 and 2 students.  Not only are these classes fun, they incorporate the tenets of the Kenyan Curriculum including critical thinking, collaboration, creativity and digital literacy.

Our new Reading Rovermobile delivered books to Sofia Primary School.  Teachers Catherine and Karen were excited to check out books to use in their classrooms and the children were thrilled to select new books.  Sofia is part of our Reading Challenge Program with the students reading 25 books in three months.  All students who complete the program will receive a special Reading Challenge String Bag with school supplies.  We continue to enroll new schools in our library program and just this week we received a shipment of 100 new books for our library!

We continue to be focused on the challenges girls face in school.  As the term commenced, more of our locally made Wings Poa Reusuable Sanitary Pad Kits were distributed at Maanzoni Primary School.  Having this product means girls don't need to miss school during their monthly menstrual cycle.

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Since we know we are all still learning, we wish you joy and learning and happy reading!

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