Education is a treasure
Ready to start into 2026 with two brandnew Classrooms and a Science Lab for our Senior School! The water harvesting with guttering and tank are installed. Since we have elephants in the area who love to come also to the school, an “elephant fence” has been installed as well. Read more about “elephant fences”
Wow, this looks promissing! Can you believe that all this was built in 2 months and a few days?
Stay tuned for the first pictures with pupils learning in the new Senior School!
Hard to believe but true! After only 6 weeks the classrooms are built – with roof, doors etc. Of course, there is still a lot to do, like painting, water harvesting etc.
However, we have been very lucky that there was no heavy rain during that period of time and the building works smoothly. Constructions are done in an organized manner with very good project planning. Also, work starts at 7am and workers receive lunch, which helps a lot for an energetic and fast progress!
With the weather to a large extend being in our favor by not having yet too many too strong rains, the contrcution of the Senior School buildings makes very fast progress over the last couple of days.
The contruction company is very engaged and currently up to 25 workers are on site daily.
Foundation for both, the 2 additional classrooms as well as the science lab has been laid out already and the work continues currently on bringing up the walls of the buildings.
Continue reading “Very good progress upon construction of the Senior School”This week, the construction of the Senior School has started. The land behind the nursery, primary and junior school has been cleared from bushes, measurements were done and now the digging for the fundaments is in full swing.
We were extremely happy when we met the first class of the secondary school in M’changa in 2023. Now, the junior secondary school pupils (grades 7-9) are about to finish and are looking forward to join senior secondary school (grades 10-12), in order to receive the full school education.
We are doing our best to collect funds to build the classrooms for the first grade level starting January 2026!
Picture: first grade level of Secondary Junior School in 2023
Agneta is a former former pupil of M’changa Primary School who is the first alumni to join university and is now a teacher volunteer in her old school.
Jambo Agneta. Can you introduce yourself?
I am Agneta Shika. I am a 2nd year student in Taita Taveta University pursuing bachelor of education arts and I am 21 years old.
The government recognizes the school as a model project. Therefore, the government has approved funding for an additional classroom. This is a major step and much needed for a school that is constantly growing. The school’s growth is due to the expanding catchment area, and children are traveling longer distances due to the school’s good reputation.
The new classroom will be used by the little kids of the nursery school as they currently need to use the tiny teachers office and the outside area.
Heavy rainfall resulted in floods after the severe drought of last winter. The soil was extremely dry and unable to absorb the heavy rains after it hardly rained at all for 3 years (with severe crop failures). This is how the village looked like:
The septic tanks of two toilet blocks were washed out and the toilet houses collapsed. Sadly, those toilets were irreparably damaged.
Continue reading “Flood & broken toilet houses”After construction of the school about 10 years ago, all classrooms were equipped with wooden shelves. Most of these are now broken or extremly fragile.
We got an extra 10 000 liter water tank from another NGO. The only thing which was missing is a tank base and the fitting to the guttering – yes, done *smiley smiling*
10 000 liter extra water is such a blessing in the dry season!
Mission accomplished in March 2024