Empower, Engage, Educate in Rural Kenya!

For most village schools in Kenya, holiday break is a time when many students spend many hours of their day performing a wide range of chores including herding cattle, gardening, gathering water and collecting firewood leaving them with little or no time at all to study. However, over this past month of August a group of 14 high school students drawn from 11 different schools had to take a little break from the norm by spending at least half a day of their vacation at the LRC for much needed remedial classes and library use. This group of students is part of Kenya Connect scholarship program that supports needy but very capable students through secondary education. With the help of a college student volunteer these students were given guidance through the challenges, which they identified in different subjects within their course work. Much emphasis was placed on science and math where most students needed help.  They were organized into small groups and were able to successfully discuss and improve many of their weak areas in different subjects.

Over and above the coursework, the opportunity of being at the LRC enabled these students to check out some books and magazines to read. With the recent purchase of a magazine rack at the LRC, the magazines are now prominently displayed and look quite appealing to read. Many of the students took the opportunity to read these magazines and the collection of books at the LRC library. It was a meaningful way for these high school students to spend their school holiday vacation.

"This holiday has been life changing! The remedial classes at the LRC have helped me a great deal in my weak areas while the discussion groups enabled us to identify our strengths and build on our weakness. I look forward to do well in my forthcoming final exams in high school."

Alex; A student at Miondoni secondary School

Meanwhile, our students from Nunga, Kituiu and Mwaasua Primary schools who begun computer literacy classes in June are now back after the August school break.  These students are busy doing word processing and keyboarding. Slowly but surely this group of students are gaining skills for the 21st century with each passing day.

We remain most grateful to you for supporting this big transformation that continues to happen among our area schools. Your support echos the words of Nelson Mandela that ‘Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world’

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• Meet our scholarship students.