THEME OBJECTIVE
Enable children and especially those coming from vulnerable and marginalized communities who cannot afford boarding schools to attain their optimal potential in education
“The School I Am In Does Not Matter, My Efforts Matter.
Education is the ultimate means of ensuring an equitable society. To date, government, schools and teachers have tended to focus on the more advantaged, able children. An inequitable education system favors those from socially and economically advantaged backgrounds. This is the surest way of maintaining or developing a class society. Social investments by corporates have mitigated the issue by providing scholarship to bright and needy students. However, it has been difficult to accommodate all the deserving and needy children. Most of these children thereby join the affordable day schools. To close educational inequalities, there must be focus on the needs of more disadvantaged children by strengthening the capacity of day scholars to enable them achieve their optimal potential.
To address education inequities and level the playing field for all children irrespective of their background, we are implementing measures aimed at raising learning outcomes and overcoming these inequalities. This includes reviving our day secondary schools through a multi-pronged approach of regular education mentorship, mobilizing professionals and other education stakeholders to support these schools. It also involves implementation of reward programmes for teachers and students. The organization has therefore formulated and implemented education solutions around the following:
- School Mentorship Programme
- School Reward Programme
- Resource Centres
- Education Partnerships
In regard to School Mentorship Programme, we visit schools and mentor children in both primary and secondary school to enable them excel in their learning. We also hold regular mentorship activities with children.
This is aimed at motivating learning. Mentorship involves our education expert engaging with learners on the real content they cover in class and advising learners on the best learning practices they can adopt to improve their academic performance.
We have also facilitated strong engagements between learners and motivational speakers like teachers, lawyers, engineers, doctors and other professionals that learners can identify with. This will be aimed at motivating learning in a sustainable way. Motivation programmes occur through digital platforms as well as through physical interactions. We have also mobilized parents to be in the frontline of tracking and following up academic excellence of their sons and daughters.
ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN
This has communicated a strong message to our students that what matters is not the school one is in but the effort put towards attaining academic success. This project seeks to achieve the following:
Instill attributes that drive good academic results and success to our students. These attributes are vision, determination, and passion for success, handwork and consistency/discipline.
To provide direction and mentorship to Form 1-Form 4 on best practices in learning which include SQ3R method, mastery learning, learning hours and prior learning among others.
Overall, the project has enabled students attain very high grades and especially in their KCSE.
Our Resource and Mentorship Centre is manned by competent individuals who move around the secondary schools motivating students.
These initiatives will in overall be measured under the following outputs, outcomes and impact:
| OUTPUT | OUTCOME | IMPACT |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Host communities’ loyalty and ownership of our programme 2. Host communities becoming promoters of our education vision | Superior grades especially in KCSE attributable to our efforts. For KCSE, we are tracking this outcome from 2024. Number of key partnerships entered annually Data collected to track school’s performance over time Testimonials from beneficiaries | Number of education activities held per month Number of pupils/students participating. Number of pupils/teachers rewarded quarterly and amount used to reward them annually Number of parents meetings both in primary and secondary schools attended by organization officials to push education agenda in education per quarter |