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NYAMANCHE PRIMARY SCHOOL

Code: 
KVDA/STV/08/E-11
Country: 
Kenya
Project Theme: 
Social
Dates: 
Thursday, 4 August, 2011 to Thursday, 25 August, 2011
The school was begun in 1982 and it is a public school. It is sponsored by Marana the mission of Kenya. The school has a population of 584 students with 282 girls and 302 boys. The school was started with the aim of having members of the community have access to education and more so the girl child. In this community, differences between man and woman dictate a difference in their social roles and this reinforces a notion that men are more superior to women. Capacity building will provide both men and women with political insight and moral support in confronting gender issues.

WAJIR PRIMARY SCHOOL

Code: 
KVDA/STV/08A-11
Country: 
Kenya
Project Theme: 
Social
Dates: 
Thursday, 4 August, 2011 to Thursday, 25 August, 2011
Wajir primary school was started so as to have the pastoral community’s children go to school. Wajir is a dry area and children preferred to move with their cattle from one place to the other in search of pastures instead of going to school. With the recent drought, they no longer have their large herds of cattle and people even in their late teens are attending school as this is the only way they can get food as schools receive relief food from the government. Remote and arid, Wajir County is largely barren.

NGUMBULU PRIMARY SCHOOL

Code: 
KVDA/STV/08B-11
Country: 
Kenya
Project Theme: 
Social
Dates: 
Thursday, 4 August, 2011 to Thursday, 25 August, 2011
The school is a community initiative. It was established so as to serve as an educational facility so as to help their children become more engaged in learning experience through connecting their cultural beliefs and life goals and more so to enable the girl child to attend school. Poverty levels in this region are very high. Ukambani experiences acute drought and the inhabitants receive relief food from the government. The area can go for several years without rainfall. The area had sometimes back gone without rainfall for 5 years i.e. since 2004-2009.

EPANG’A PRIMARY SCHOOL

Code: 
KVDA/STV/08C-11
Country: 
Kenya
Project Theme: 
Social
Dates: 
Thursday, 4 August, 2011 to Thursday, 25 August, 2011
Epang’a Primary School is a school situated at Epang‘a village. It is a mixed primary school founded in the early 1920’s by the community leaders and stakeholders led by the late Fanuel Miluya Silunya. In 1948, the church at Kima Mission took over the sponsorship of the school. To date It is being sponsored by the Church of God. The school has trained teachers employed by the government. KVDA endeavors to empower communities to take care and support orphans and vulnerable children.

WANDECHE PRIMARY SCHOOL

Code: 
KVDA/STV/08D-11
Country: 
Kenya
Project Theme: 
Social
Dates: 
Thursday, 4 August, 2011 to Thursday, 25 August, 2011
The school was started in 1992 as primary and a nursery school. It has a population of 340 students and eight teachers against eight streams. It also has two nursery teachers and a watchman. The School is situated inside the heartland of the Bunyore culture and deep into the rural area where there are very high poverty levels among the local people. Many people in the community are victims of jiggers fleas. Jiggers fleas are tiny, but don’t be fooled by the size – once they burrow into children’s feet, they wreak huge consequences.

Essumba Primary School

Code: 
KVDA/STV/09/C-11
Country: 
Kenya
Project Theme: 
Social
Dates: 
Saturday, 3 September, 2011 to Saturday, 24 September, 2011
The School was established in 1958 as a community institution to cater for the ever-increasing number of children seeking Primary School education in the region. The initiative was a combined effort of the local community in collaboration with the Anglican Church of Kenya. The School aims at providing quality basic education to all children in the community to enable them to gain knowledge that is the foundation for their future.

GHAZI PRIMARY SCHOOL

Code: 
KVDA/STV/08/F-11
Country: 
Kenya
Project Theme: 
Social
Dates: 
Thursday, 4 August, 2011 to Thursday, 25 August, 2011
Ghazi primary school is a school is a community initiative project. The school also plays a key role in empowering the girl child as the culture of the community oppresses women by holding them in low esteems. The school offers education growth from early child hood development to grade eight. Human wildlife conflict is very widespread and primarily exists in all counties in Kenya. The most affected areas in the coastal province ate Taita Taveta and Kwale districts with elephants being the main cause of conflict.

NYALIBEI PRIMARY SCHOOL

Code: 
KVDA/STV/08/G-11
Country: 
Kenya
Project Theme: 
Social
Dates: 
Thursday, 4 August, 2011 to Thursday, 25 August, 2011
Nyalibei primary school is located in the Rift Valley Part of Kenya. The school was founded in 1995 through the community’s initiative. It is a public school currently the school has a population of approximately 500 pupils. The school has a feeding program for the orphans and experiences many challenges such as lack of enough teachers and facilities. Throughout Kenya's history, women have been subjugated to consistent rights abuses while shouldering an overwhelming amount of responsibilities.

KAMAGAP PRIMARY SCHOOL

Code: 
KVDA/STV/08H-11
Country: 
Kenya
Project Theme: 
Social
Dates: 
Thursday, 4 August, 2011 to Thursday, 25 August, 2011
Kamagap Primary School is located in Kamagap Kibwareng Sub-Location in Aldai Division, Nandi South district, Rift Valley Province in the Republic of Kenya. Rift Valley is sometimes referred to as semi-arid zone. The Nandi people among the legendary Kalenjin community are renowned for their prowess in sports; especially athletics and the majority of the fastest runners in Kenya at global marathon fora are drawn from this community.

MARAGOLI COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION

Code: 
KVDA/STV/09A-11
Country: 
Kenya
Project Theme: 
Social
Dates: 
Saturday, 3 September, 2011 to Saturday, 24 September, 2011
KVDA endeavors to empower communities to take care and support orphans and vulnerable children. During the volunteer project there will be a workshop where community based organizations will be invited to be trained on issues related to project governance, management, and increased capacity of community-based organizations to develop budgets, work plans, cash fore casts and monitoring of financial systems.

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