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Raising Achievement in Ndhiwa Primary Schools
In Spring 2017, Team Kenya was delighted to receive a grant of £10,000 from the British and Foreign School Society (https://www.bfss.org.uk) to introduce new activities into our existing programmes in schools. The project, ‘Raising Achievement in Ndhiwa Primary Schools’, is funded for twelve months and aims to improve education for girls and boys in our four partner schools and more widely across the sub-county. The project is improving access to much-needed resources for teachers and children as well as training and mentoring for a Lead Teacher in each school. The Lead Teacher will then be supported to cascade her/his learning…
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Celebrating Success! Last year we trained over 120 of our girls’ mothers in improved agricultural techniques and table banking, to help them become food secure, increase their income and better manage their finances. As a result, for the first time, these women have sufficient funds to be able to contribute to their daughters’ school fees and better support their families. Thanks to the incredible efforts of the women that we trained, all of the girls in our Success for Girls in School and Aspire Scholarships programmes, who passed their primary schools exams, are now in high school with only a…
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I’m Emma Lees and I am a Law student at Newcastle University. I became involved in Team Kenya over a year ago after searching for a society that combined women’s rights with international development, so this charity seemed perfect. I have helped fundraise at the numerous society events as well as organising the pub quiz and Christmas fair. I have always had a passion for this area of work and when the opportunity of visiting Kenya arose I knew I had to come. I had done a similar volunteering trip to Marrakech before – which I loved, although at times…
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