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Meet Winnie, she is 12 years old. She completed her primary level education at Imbaseni Primary School. She joined our Primary School English Tuition Program in September 2021. Winnie says, “I like this program, I am being taught a few important subjects that will help me in secondary school.” Winnie has improved her English, she can now read and write in English and read books from the E-readers on her own. She heard about the program from her teachers and fellow graduates. The primary program this year included other training which aimed at preparing all the beneficiaries to join secondary school. They are taught Mathematics, English, and technology through E-readers. These are the major and basic subjects that when a student understands, it becomes easier to learn all the secondary school subjects. We successfully trained the students on reproductive health topics. Since most of them are at the adolescent age, body changes and growth are expected to occur. They were taught things such as:

• Puberty
• Menstrual Hygiene
• Uses of Sanitary towels
• Boys (Body cleanness).

We also included a topic on Climate and environmental issues to ensure that they understand the importance of keeping the environment clean while at Jifundishe, at home, and in their schools. Thus, they were taught things such as:

• Environment and its components
• Environment conservation and preservation.
• Techniques for environment preservation.

All the primary school students understand the importance of taking care of their environment and have practiced planting trees around Jifundishe. They have also participated in debates about crosscutting issues in our country. This has helped them improve in spelling English words. They have watched different educational films and played educational games and all these activities have helped broaden their knowledge in different things and enabled us to maintain attendance and retention rates since the beginning of the program to date.

Generally, The Primary School English Tuition Program this year has been a success for the beneficiaries and Jifundishe. We thank all our donors for their contribution which led to the success of programs operating at Jifundishe Free Library.

Meet Nina. J.K she is 26 years old. She was born in Arumeru district, she is the firstborn in her family. Her mother and father never lived together and she was left by both her parents to be raised by her grandmother to date. And when she started primary school she asked for her father, her grandmother told her he had died. She was enrolled in school by her grandmother at Mikuuni Primary School and finished primary school in 2009, where she was then selected to join secondary education at Malula secondary school in King’ori village. Due to financial challenges, Ninael dropped out of school in 2011 after doing her form two examination and stayed at home for one year helping her grandmother by doing some cheap labor in the village to earn a small income for food and necessary needs such as cloth, shoes etc. In 2013 Ninael tried to sit for the secondary school national examination as a private candidate but did not succeed because she lacked studying resources and she stayed home again for 2 years, until when she heard about Jifundishe from a political campaign in the village. She was excited about the services offered at Jifundishe and her lost hope about a bright future was back to light again. Nina joined Jifundishe in 2016 as a qualifying test (QT) student to start studying again informally. She sat for her exams repeatedly for 5 years and now she has completed Advanced level secondary education in May 2021. The result came out the first week of July 2021, she did very well. Nina is thankful to Jifundishe. She participated in different youth campaigns and capacity buildings that involved other youth from Jifundishe partners she now has a broad knowledge on cross-cutting issues, sustainable development goals, and gender issues at the national and international levels.

Nina scores division two in her exams,  she is getting ready to join university to study Bachelor of Education.

“I appreciate the programs offered at Jifundishe because they helped achieve my educational goals and life in general. GODBLESS JIFUNDISHE”, said Nina