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Tuesday 20 March 2012
MARCH 2012
The newly established secondary school is growing every day and now 15 new students are learning with eagerness. 10 students are girls and Mwangaza Group is proud to educate girls, which so often are limited from the learning as they have to help in the house work. Our students are both Christian and Muslim mixed.
Currently, the school is teaching all the basic subjects and in addition it has started teaching reasoning and arts and skills for the students. Last week the students learned how to write poetry and perform spoken word as well as to write with different fonts. They also learned basics of life drawing. In the reasoning class they pondered all the reasons to live and reasons to learn.
Mwangaza school wants to educate youths to have skills in arts, sports, crafts, carpentry etc. in order to make the students strong academically, artistically and practically. The school is trying to identify people’s natural talents and encourage the youths to practice and perfect their skills and abilities. That will enhance their self-esteem and bring a positive balance to the academic studies.
Currently, the school is teaching all the basic subjects and in addition it has started teaching reasoning and arts and skills for the students. Last week the students learned how to write poetry and perform spoken word as well as to write with different fonts. They also learned basics of life drawing. In the reasoning class they pondered all the reasons to live and reasons to learn.
Mwangaza school wants to educate youths to have skills in arts, sports, crafts, carpentry etc. in order to make the students strong academically, artistically and practically. The school is trying to identify people’s natural talents and encourage the youths to practice and perfect their skills and abilities. That will enhance their self-esteem and bring a positive balance to the academic studies.
Thursday 23 February 2012
Febryary News
Mwangaza school is running with many challenges this month. Even though a secondary was opened, there still are not enough desks and books in the school. We seek for any assistance in this sector so we can fulfill our targets as giving out best quality education.
Our teachers are working very hard and all pupils are performing well. New talents are being discovered almost everyday.
We are currently seeking for land to start farming vegetables and we are trying to come up with good ideas for generating income. All ideas are welcome!
As we have discovered, St Peter Mwangaza school is the cheapest school in the area which means consequently that most of our pupils come from very needy families. Children are sharp and learn fast and we pray from Almighty God to get the means to help all these orphans and other needy children to uplift their knowledge and living standards.
Our teachers are working very hard and all pupils are performing well. New talents are being discovered almost everyday.
We are currently seeking for land to start farming vegetables and we are trying to come up with good ideas for generating income. All ideas are welcome!
As we have discovered, St Peter Mwangaza school is the cheapest school in the area which means consequently that most of our pupils come from very needy families. Children are sharp and learn fast and we pray from Almighty God to get the means to help all these orphans and other needy children to uplift their knowledge and living standards.
Monday 13 February 2012
February News
SECONDARY SCHOOL OPENED
Mwangaza Community Development Group has opened a secondary school at St. Peter! Five new students have joined the first class and the lessons have officially started on 13th of February. More new students are expected to join in this week.
One of the primary reasons for opening the school has been the crisis in the Kenyan education system. Many students had failed their final tests and committed suicides. (http://kenyauptodate.blogspot.com/2012/01/another-pupil-commits-suicide.html)
In the Kenyan system, all the students who finish primary education are taking the same final exam and if they score less than 250, they are limited to continue their studies. Many secondary schools have an access limits of 350 and above. Also the secondary school fees are often too high for students who come from low income background to afford.
Thus Mwangaza has opened a new secondary to target the vulnerable and needy youth in the community who otherwise have no access to secondary school. We admit all pupils with any marks they have and we have set very low course fees:
Admission fee: 800
Course fee per term: 3,000 KSH
Caution fees: 150 per term (for extra curricular activities)
TEACH MORE SKILLS and PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE!
We target to grow our school to be a full primary and secondary school, which teaches skills and nurtures talents individually making every student perfect in his or her potential.
Recently, there have been some cases of student suicides in Kenya after their exam results were released. The school exam failure is causing a lot of grief to many pupils and their families and the reason is that the current schools only educate the children with academic knowledge of how to pass an exam and not with education that is practical for life. Children are not educated to be strong and independent, innovative or wise in terms of skills. Children and youths are lacking artistic expression, innovative minds and physical fitness.
We want to change theoretical chemistry to be practical in which children learn for instance to make soap practically, theoretical mathematics to become practical business related mathematics etc.
The main goal of Mwangaza Group is to offer quality education to all children. It is vital to empower and educate vulnerable children many of whom have no parents or come from low income families and cannot afford education. All children deserve the same quality education no matter how rich their parents are and we are fighting for the equality to be established in the educational system. The more children we empower, the more successful our project will be.
Mwangaza Community Development Group has opened a secondary school at St. Peter! Five new students have joined the first class and the lessons have officially started on 13th of February. More new students are expected to join in this week.
One of the primary reasons for opening the school has been the crisis in the Kenyan education system. Many students had failed their final tests and committed suicides. (http://kenyauptodate.blogspot.com/2012/01/another-pupil-commits-suicide.html)
In the Kenyan system, all the students who finish primary education are taking the same final exam and if they score less than 250, they are limited to continue their studies. Many secondary schools have an access limits of 350 and above. Also the secondary school fees are often too high for students who come from low income background to afford.
Thus Mwangaza has opened a new secondary to target the vulnerable and needy youth in the community who otherwise have no access to secondary school. We admit all pupils with any marks they have and we have set very low course fees:
Admission fee: 800
Course fee per term: 3,000 KSH
Caution fees: 150 per term (for extra curricular activities)
TEACH MORE SKILLS and PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE!
We target to grow our school to be a full primary and secondary school, which teaches skills and nurtures talents individually making every student perfect in his or her potential.
Recently, there have been some cases of student suicides in Kenya after their exam results were released. The school exam failure is causing a lot of grief to many pupils and their families and the reason is that the current schools only educate the children with academic knowledge of how to pass an exam and not with education that is practical for life. Children are not educated to be strong and independent, innovative or wise in terms of skills. Children and youths are lacking artistic expression, innovative minds and physical fitness.
We want to change theoretical chemistry to be practical in which children learn for instance to make soap practically, theoretical mathematics to become practical business related mathematics etc.
The main goal of Mwangaza Group is to offer quality education to all children. It is vital to empower and educate vulnerable children many of whom have no parents or come from low income families and cannot afford education. All children deserve the same quality education no matter how rich their parents are and we are fighting for the equality to be established in the educational system. The more children we empower, the more successful our project will be.
Wednesday 11 January 2012
BACK TO SCHOOL!
Mwangaza school opened its doors for a new semester on the 9th of January. New pupils are coming every day and all teachers and students are full of energy and positivity to keep on progressing in learning.
New volunteer Rowan came from England to help us to develop better art methods and to teach English. Next week we are going to start setting up a tree nursery with the Mwangaza youth group. Trees are very important for our environment bringing us shelter, food, medicine, oxygen etc and they keep our soil healthy protecting it from erosion and clean the air from pollution.
Mwangaza group is setting its targets for the new year:
1. Well furnished building with qualified teachers. Targetting to hire a cook and raise funds for food at school to provide children with right nutrition
2. Improved physical education to manufacture physically healthy pupils who have energy to study and their brain is woken up with oxygen.
3. Improved arts education to manufacture innovative and creative pupils
4. Opening a class for secondary school to provide quality education for older students.
5. Establishing a proper tree nursery and planting 500 trees in the community.
6. Establishing a workshop for Mercy Aged Women Group
Mwangaza Community Development Group wishes you a prosperous new year 2012!!!
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