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Raising Achievement in Ndhiwa!
Team Kenya’s Raising Achievement programme works alongside four schools to improve the quality of teaching. Enhancing the quality of teaching gives girls and boys the opportunity to perform more effectively in school, and as the name suggests… raise achievement! The programme has had a positive impact upon our partner schools, with each school experiencing more students completing primary education, rather than leaving school at some point in their primary years. One partner school, Arina Primary, had no girls in the final year of primary school when partnership with Team Kenya was established six years ago. This number has increased to…
Read moreKoduogo School Business Farm
Koduogo Primary school has over 1,000 students and only 8 teachers, making class sizes of over 100 a common theme. One of the classes currently learns under a tree and those taught in classrooms are cramped with limited resources. Two years ago, Team Kenya invested 200,000 Kenyan Schillings (approximately £1,500) in a school business farm at the school. The motivation behind this was to generate income to contribute towards school improvements and to more effectively meet the need of girls. Maize, bananas, soya beans and eucalyptus trees were planted, whilst sheep were purchased to do this. The school now has…
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