Jenny was able to spend a couple of mornings helping with the Kids to Kids Programme based at the Childrens Church near Westlands. Janet Reeh, whose husband is the MAF Operations Manager and Pilot, teaches phonics and reading to groups of the children and took Jenny along.
There are 29 children at the school between the ages of 7 and 13 of varying abilities and they are split by ability, not age, into 2 classes, upper and lower. All the children are from the nearby slums and would otherwise not be given the opportunity of an education. The children were so well disciplined and studious ... appreciating the chance they have been given!
The children are given both breakfast and lunch every day while at school, where they would be lucky to receive one meal at day while at home ... here they are queueing to collect their lunch (with the church building in the background!)
Each child is part of this programme for one academic year being taught the basics they need to then be fed into the Kenyan public school system. When they finish their year, they continue to be sponsored for the first year they are in a Kenyan school and given shoes, a school uniform and bag ... and a desk and chair (!!!) which every child must provide for themselves to go to school!! - the primary education might now be free in Kenya, but it still costs to attend school!
Here is a photo of Janet with Violet and Eunice, the two main teachers at the school ... they were both so lovely! Violet takes the lower class who Jenny helped out with and Eunice the upper class.
This is a picture of the 2 classrooms used for the school ... they are both quite basic and the resources are limited ... but they are the means for a life changing experience for the children who go there!
There are 29 children at the school between the ages of 7 and 13 of varying abilities and they are split by ability, not age, into 2 classes, upper and lower. All the children are from the nearby slums and would otherwise not be given the opportunity of an education. The children were so well disciplined and studious ... appreciating the chance they have been given!
The children are given both breakfast and lunch every day while at school, where they would be lucky to receive one meal at day while at home ... here they are queueing to collect their lunch (with the church building in the background!)
Each child is part of this programme for one academic year being taught the basics they need to then be fed into the Kenyan public school system. When they finish their year, they continue to be sponsored for the first year they are in a Kenyan school and given shoes, a school uniform and bag ... and a desk and chair (!!!) which every child must provide for themselves to go to school!! - the primary education might now be free in Kenya, but it still costs to attend school!
Here is a photo of Janet with Violet and Eunice, the two main teachers at the school ... they were both so lovely! Violet takes the lower class who Jenny helped out with and Eunice the upper class.
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