Education Kenya Project #16906

Help Build a Trade School for Youth in Rural Kenya

by Tumaini Miles of Smiles Centre

Project Report | Jun 16, 2020
Covid-19 updates

By Rose Bugusu | Director

Giving soap to widows and orphans for hand washing

This year has been a challenge due to Covid – 19 pandemic. The government announced closure abruptly and all the students had to go home. The year started well, we had 25 new students who had joined the school, 15 second year students and 20 had gone for a three months internship.

The reopening of the school is unknown but we are waiting for the government to give us the way forward. We are trying our best to communicate with the students to practice the measures set by the government seriously. It is hard reach out to them because gathering are not allowed and technology is still down in the rural areas.

We are also conducting feeding program through food distribution because most of our students depend on the meals provided at the school. They are struggling because most of them live on a dollar per day which can’t buy them food at the moment. The cost of food stuff is high and most of the families in the community can’t afford. We are doing what we can to help them have at least a meal a day.

We can’t stop thanking those who are still sending their donations during this hard times. We are able to do what we are doing because of your generosity. Kindly share the good work you are doing with friends and family. Thank and stay safe,

Food distribution at the trade school

Guardians to our students waiting for food

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Feb 18, 2020
New Admissions

By Rose Bugusu | Director

One of the babies in care at the trade school

The trade school is offering trades to the youth especially the needy. Most of the youth in the community are primary school graduates and because of their backgrounds they never had the opportunity to join high school and even get skills to help them in their future lives. This has affected the lives of many in the community and this increases the poverty in most households. The efforts in making a difference and bringing a lasting change in the lives are shuttered due to lack of education/skills.

The trade school has supported over 100 students in the last few years and most of them are self-employed and or employed. We have set up a sponsorship program supporting individual student and this has worked well in the last few years. We have started admitting young girls who dropped out of school due to early pregnancy and had no chance to go back to school. Most of the girls come from poor families and poverty contributes to what happened in their lives.

This program will be helping the girls and their children. The baby care program care for their children while their mothers learn. We have dressmaking, hairdressing and catering. This will give them an opportunity to help their children in future.

This year’s admissions have gone well, we have 20 students’ first year students. WE have 13 who have gone for attachments and 10 2^nd year students. We don’t have enough dormitories and we are planning to construct a dormitory starting mid-year. This will give room for more girls to come for the training.

Share with friends and families about our sponsorship program towards the youth and the benefits they get from the skills. Learning keeps the youths busy and has highly contributed to behavior change. This has brought peace and good security in the community.

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Nov 18, 2019
SCHOOL HOLIDAYS

By Rose Bugusu | Director

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