ST. MARY IGIKIRO FOUNDATION
Education being our core business, over the last 14 years we have managed to support about 1500 pupils to achieve their basic education from ECDE to standard eight (Std. 8) education levels.
About 54 individuals from this group of pupils have successfully gone to university and successfully completed their degrees(some master's degrees) in various fields of study.
We have a great number of these alumni who are in the working industry having attained qualifications at various levels (vocational, degrees, colleges and on-work skills) and fields of study.
We are determined to continue with this gear to ensure the foundation will eventually has a self-sustaining system supported majorly by these alumni materially, technically and morally as the fraternity continues to grow and prosper.
We believe in education to bring about equity in terms of opportunity access and reduce poverty levels in those households whose children find a safe haven in our programs.
We would like to acknowledge the great support LUTTS has accorded our program in education since year 2023.
They have been of great help in establishing and upgrading our washrooms and kitchen, procuring school text books and ensuring smooth running of and learning in our school. We are always grateful for the good work.
GRACE Africa supported us to undertake the goat initiative that ensured parents and guardians of our needy pupils had an alternative source of income to support their livelihood. They were also of great help in carrying out psycho-social services to to the community from2011 t0 2013. The impact they helped to create still stand conspicuously in our society up to date.
OUR SWOT ANALYSIS
From analysis of our strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats facing our charity organization we are able to determine areas of need and where we have enough to offer thus improving efficiency and minimizing flaws in executing our duties in our community work.
1. Internal Strengths in Our Charity
Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
Classrooms
We have established a total of 10 classrooms, an office block and a staff block. These classrooms harbor our pupils for learning, counselling and interactive sessions.
Photo gallery: During an interactive session
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Some of our classrooms
We have installed a number of playing equipment in the school to let the children have fun in the school during breaks and physical exercise sessions. These sessions help the children to disengage their minds from the challenges they may be facing back at home.
In addition, we have a playground that allows the pupils to engage in different games to ensure they develop their talents and be active in co-curriculum activities.
Bringing Strength
We have scooped a great deal of knowledge and expertise in charity work over the years helping us to build resilience in both teaching and running the foundation.
Our support system ensures the less fortunate are never alone on their journey, offering guidance, resources, and solutions when they need them most.
We are also versatile in developing schedules and manuscripts to do outreaches when visiting pupils, parents and guardians at their household level.
Our management and teaching team
Photo gallery: During a school closing day
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Our management and teaching teams
Over the years we have put together diverse categories of text books, library resources, newsletters and other materials necessary for delivering contents in classes.
With so many programs to administer and many materials, equipment ant tools to offer custody for, our small office and staff rooms are not enough to accommodate these.
Our school does not have either a van nor a bus that can be used for transportation purposes. This has contributed to high cost during mobility as we are forced to hire vehicles from other institutions. We miss some opportunities as we are not able to obtains such vehicles sometimes.
Our classrooms have old roofing that are in dire need of replacement. The floors are earthed as the cemented surfaces are worn out.
Seats and desks for our pupils need to be remade and others to be replaced as many are old..
Our land is small relatively to the space needed to play some games like football, establishment of a bigger administration block and more classrooms as we anticipate to improve our system to include senior secondary school.
As a requirement by the Kenyan system of education, lab a nd lab equipment are essential to the current system of education. Currently we do not own such facilities and we go to other schools for lab sessions a practice that is quite inconveniencing.
We have cordial relations with different partner entities: government departments & agencies, partner organizations and resourceful individuals for a better performance.
There are many entities out there looking for charity foundations in education and health like us ready to partner, fund and capacity-build for a more strengthened society.
Today's digital world allows us to communicate globally, partner with interested parties from whatever corner of this world and become more enlightened and knowledgeable.
With the current ever-changing Competence-Based Education (CBE) system in Kenya the cost of implementation has been on steep upward trajectory.
The recommended text books are rendered obsolete now and then which means great negative impacts on our budgets.
Teachers are required to re-learn sporadically reducing their class time and increasing costs on the foundation budget.
Teaching aids are required to be changed or their number increased more often.
Underfunded budgets vis a vis high demands for our services. Contributions from within our charity are far meagre calling for support from supporters in any form be it grants, donations, sponsorships, scholarships or crowdfunding. For this cause kindly reach out to us here.
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