Empower Street Children's Education-Build A School

Thank you so much for your financial support for the Kimbilio Project 'Empower Street Children's Education - Build a School'. This enables us to be able pay the teachers and support workers at the new school, to purchase the teaching materials and to be able to maintain the school building. We plan to build a wall around the site to provide security as IT equipment and other valuable resources are kept in the classrooms overnight.

The school is a vibrant and happy place for the children. The confidence that they gain from learning to read and write and the IT skills that they are taught which will give them the opportunities for a skilled job when they leave school. And recently, five older children have now started at the University of Lubumbashi, where they will be supported in their studies by Kimbilio.

Thank you for your financial support for this Project which enabled Kimbilio to build a school for children who had been living on the streets and for children of local families who could not afford the school fees for state schools. There are now 245 children at the Kimbilio school. Your support covers the salaries for the teachers, the purchase of teaching materials and the maintenance of the school building and grounds.

The school program has now expanded from teaching the Primary curriculum to offer the first three years of the secondary curriculum. In  addition to the usual Congolese curriculum taught in French, it offers art, sport, IT in a dedicated IT suite, and English from Nursery upwards, none of which is taught in any but the most expensive private schools.

The Kimbilio Founding Director has just returned from Lubumbashi where he presented prizes to the children at the end of the school year.