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News and Media
High Cost Of Living
March 22, 2022
Kenyans are an angry lot. Everything from gas, cooking oil, cooking flour, sugar, salt, rice, local transport, and generally all basic commodities have increased in price. It started with the increase in fuel, and other commodities soon followed. Many people have not stabilized from the fall-out of Covid, and it is, therefore, tragic that the cost of living has shot up so high, now.
read moreSchool Holidays
March 15, 2022
The children are home for a long break from school. The Form 4 students are sitting their final examinations, so they can join University in September, while the Standard 8 students are sitting their final Primary examinations. This group will be joining Secondary School when schools reopen in April.
read moreInternational Womens Day
March 8, 2022
The theme this year for International Women’s Day is ‘gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow.’
In Africa, where the woman is looked down upon, forced to live a life that is oppressive and downright degrading, we are seeing positive strides each year. More girls are going to school, the rate of F.G.M has gone down, and women are taking their place in the workforce. More and more women are standing up for their rights and not allowing negative talk or prejudice towards them to affect their way of life. But even with the positive strides, a lot still needs to be done.
read moreChoice Club Graduations, Shiners And Kimuka Schools
February 28, 2022
We had our graduation ceremony at Shiners Girls school last weekend, and today, we had the final graduation ceremony at Kimuka School. In total, we have graduated over 220 girls in all three schools. Graduation ceremonies usually elicite a lot of excitement. The students prepare well before the graduation day.
read moreTeenage Trauma
February 9, 2022
Since the beginning of January, we have been addressing an issue with a young teenage girl who is deeply traumatized. She joined Form 1 in a girls-only boarding school three years ago, but she had to revert to being a day scholar. The girl’s father told us that his daughter was very excited to join boarding school, and he was equally happy for her to do so. She had worked very hard while at Primary school and passed her exams well which enabled her to join the boarding school of her choice. The days that followed were busy with school shopping as well as covering and labelling her books. Then it was time, and she joined the Secondary school.
read moreChoice Club Graduations
February 2, 2022
There are many benefits of having a mentor in high school, which can have far reaching implications for students and their overall academic performance.
read moreHUMAN RIGHTS vs African traditions
February 1, 2022
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and, as such, ought to act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
read moreSafety- Personal Responsibility
January 25, 2022
A suitcase was dropped at the general service unit gate, home to the dreaded Kenyan army. It was abandoned overnight. The security officer, who found the suitcase, got curious and opened it. To his horror, he found a woman’s body stuffed inside; it had been chopped up into smaller pieces. After a lot of media coverage, a man came up and claimed the body to be that of his wife who had been missing for a few days. She was in her early 20s. According to her father, who later came to identify the body, his daughter had dropped out of school when she was in Form 2. No motive has been established regarding her murder.
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