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May 2012 Report
Report from Kenya May 2012
Korogocho Education Awareness Campaign
Korogocho Education Awareness campaign procession – few minutes before being disrupted by rioting angry youths.
Korogocho education awareness campaign procession on 8th March 2012
Every Child Has the Right to Education
ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION FOR REFORMS NOW:
Sanonda Building Kariobangi North
P. O. Box 6253 – 00200 Nairobi, Kenya. Mobile: 0722 – 416343
Email: acornkenya@yahoo.com or Kenya@acornkenya.org.
EVERY CHILD HAS THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION
Dear Sir/Madam/Rev/Hon………………………………………………………………………………
Re: Campaign to increase School going Children enrollment in Korogocho:
From the survey conducted by Acorn Kenya early last year Korogocho has got over 25 thousand school going children but amusingly only about half this number, (12 thousands) is attending school. What happens to the other half is still a great mystery to us. However majority of the parents don’t take their sole responsibility to enhance this legal right to educate their children.
It’s in this regard that Acorn Kenya in partnership with other several organizations and the Local Administration, are inviting you to an education awareness campaign day which will be launched at Korogocho on 8th March 2012 starting from 9.00am.
The event will start with a procession from St John’s Catholic Church and culminate with a sharing forum at the Chief’s camp.
Your presence, participation and contribution to make this day a success will be highly appreciated.
“UNITED TOGETHER WE CAN CREATE CHANGE IN KOROGOCHO” YES WE CAN!
For more information, contact us or visit us in our office at Sanoda Building 3rd floor Room No. 9.
Yours faithfully,
Sammy Ndirangu
Programme Coordinator
ACORN- Kenya
0722-592466
Daniel Kairu Chairman of the Organizing Committee ACORN Kenya 0728-864059 Cc to Korogocho area Chief.ACORN Kenya January 2012
02/02/2012
We started the month of January with a lot of vigour as we tried to follow up the implementation of some of the recommendations done during the Korogocho education day we organized last year in the month of October. We started early in the beginning of the month by making interventions for the many young children who do not attend school to acquire their basic education. More than 40 children who have not been attending school have now been linked to various primary schools where they are currently attending their lesson. The main schools that we are working with closely through this programme are St. Clare Primary School, Ngunyumu Primary School and St. Prisca education centre.
Another great achievement of our last year’s campaign is in the issuing of this year’s bursary funding. At least 18 students have been granted the bursary support of Kshs 5,000 each for their first term fees in various Secondary schools.
We are also making the follow up with two Secondary schools which offer partial sponsorships to secondary students. These are Gureck Secondary School and Jitegemee Secondary school. Already we have more than 20 students willing to join the Secondary but they are lacking that financial support from their parents/guardians. In Gureck Secondary which is a boarding school, students pay Kshs. 2000 every month While in Jitegemee Secondary which is a day school the students pay Kshs. 1,000 each month. We have negotiated with Principals in these two schools and they are willing to support the students that we will recommend to them towards the end of this week so that they can start their classes next week. We will be meeting with the two Principals on Saturday but in separate meetings. We hope that they will be able to accommodate these young people in their schools.
Other activities on membership recruitment, leadership building and dues collection has been going on well although with a little bit of lower turn up.
Membership recruitment.
Sixteen new members joined the organization in the last one month, majority of them coming from the other villages of Korogocho.
VILLAGE
NEW MEMBERS
Ksumu ndogo
2
Korogocho A
4
Korogocho B
3
Grogon A
1
Gitathuru
2
ngomongo
4
Total
16
Dues collection
VILLAGE
NO.OF MEMBERS
TOTAL IN KSHS
Kisumu Ndogo
40
800
Highridge
65
1,300
Other villages
15
300
TOTAL
120
2400
MEETINGS
EDUCATION COMMITTEE MEETINGS
We held our first committee meeting this year towards mind of January and agreed to focus our campaign this time on creating awareness to all parents/guardians from Korogocho on the importance of supporting the education of their children. A lot of problems in education sector are caused by parents who do not take their responsibility in educating their children or even making follow-up on the progress of their children while in school. We organized a committee to look on ways to carry out this campaign and together we held the first meeting to discuss the matter on 22 January and agreed that this campaign will be launched on 16th February 2012 whereby we will have a big procession around all the 9 villages of Korogocho and finally gather at the Chief’s compound where we will have motivational talks on importance of educating Children from various speakers.
Already we have been able to reach out to several important persons such as The Korogocho Chief, Fr. John from St. John’s Korogocho, Various Head teachers from Primary schools within Korogocho, The Principles of both Gureck Secondary and Jitegemee who happens to be, both pastors and Councillors,- among many others. Those approached have shown great concern and willingness to support the campaign. Our next meeting will be on Monday 6th February 2012 at our offices in Kariobangi from 2.00pm.
Report done and compiled by
Sammy and David
Acorn Kenya
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