Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Underway Primary School Construction


Approximately 2,700 former internally displaced persons were ressettled by the government on September last year on 1,187 acres of land and each family benefited with two and half acres. The families were supplied with building materials by the Kenya government and they have started putting up their houses although some are still incomplete due to lack of some of the construction materials. The area they have settled in have no any social amenities within and VICDA found that the social amenties are needed to meet the necessary needs of the Giwa Farm community. VICDA has started constructing a primary school from Nursery school to grade 8 with the help of one of our donors(World Teacher Aid) who is funding for the whole school construction.
A number of children have not been attending school due to lack of uniforms,stationries and money for the tuition and other actitivies in the school. The children have been also been avoiding school due to challenges with hunger as these families are starting to rebuild their lives to have a way of income and building capacity to feed their families in future. The education in school will start in the month of january 2011 with the help of the kenya government where they are going to provide teachers,chalks,and text books. The number of children to attend this school is approximately 600 children and they will be enjoying their education like any other child in the Kenyan society. Many thanks to the World Teachers Aid for all their effort towards this school.

Updates for 2010


Hi everyone, it has been long since i updated you with the prograss of what is going on, on the ground. Alot has been happening within our community and we have made much progress to improve the lives of vulnerable children and families in our Kenyan community. Despite having a few challenges which will always be there, we accommplished a number of projects with a big positive impacts. VICDA in Kenya and GVN Foundation,Newzealand have been able to construct a number of houses for the people who were dispalced by violence and we are still going on with the construction and anyone interested to join us, you can contact us.
Here is a smaple of some of the houses we have constructed for the families in nakuru District in Rift Valley province.