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The school has found that most<br />
students come to school<br />
hungry and they have had to<br />
(despite the limited funds) start<br />
a feeding programme and<br />
also offer accommodation for<br />
some of the students at the<br />
school simply because life at<br />
home for some of these children<br />
is extremely dysfunctional and<br />
challenging.<br />
Isaac is physically unable to<br />
keep up with the demands<br />
on the school and has<br />
had to turn many children<br />
away. The classrooms are<br />
falling apart, are extremely<br />
overcrowded and there are not<br />
enough desks in any of the<br />
classrooms. The teachers<br />
are regularly not paid on<br />
time and this sometimes means<br />
that there are not enough<br />
teachers to cover the subjects<br />
required for the students to be<br />
well prepared to perform to the<br />
best of their capabilities. There<br />
is no functional library which<br />
means outdated worn out<br />
books often have to be shared<br />
between 6 to 10 student. The<br />
laboratory does not have the<br />
basic equipment needed for the<br />
students to participate in their<br />
practicals which is a part of the<br />
national curriculum.<br />
Isaac cannot do this alone.<br />
He needs our help to keep the<br />
school open and to increase<br />
his capacity to deliver quality<br />
education to all the students<br />
that walk through the doors of<br />
Shammah Splendid Centre-<br />
Kibera.<br />
The Vision of the School is<br />
to provide holistic education to<br />
the underprivileged in Kibera<br />
and its surrounding areas.<br />
The Mission of the School<br />
is to give an opportunity<br />
for learning to each child<br />
in the Kibera as a form of<br />
intervention in raising up<br />
responsible citizens who<br />
will become contributors to<br />
the local economyas well as<br />
develop to be job creators.<br />
The Universal Declaration of<br />
Human Rights makes clear<br />
that every child has the right<br />
to free basic education so<br />
that poverty and lack of money<br />
should not be a barrier to<br />
schooling. If we do not step<br />
in, many families will remain<br />
locked in a cycle of poverty that<br />
will go on for generations. Many<br />
parents are feeling that they<br />
are being left with no choice<br />
but to marry off their young<br />
daughters or send their sons to<br />
take part in hard manual labour<br />
in the fear of the risk of making<br />
themselves destitute in their<br />
efforts to get their children better<br />
lives through education.<br />
PLEASE JOIN US TO<br />
REBUILD THE SCHOOL<br />
AND GET IT UP TO A LEVEL<br />
THAT WILL CATER FOR THE<br />
STUDENTS EDUCATIONAL<br />
NEEDS.<br />
COLLECTIVELY, WE CAN<br />
HELP CHANGE THE FACE OF<br />
KIBERA.<br />
4THEDITION<br />
| JULY 2019<br />
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