Schools Graduate from our Education Investment Programme
Our Education Investment Programme aims to support our key purpose - the improvement in academic performance as a result of being able to access a quality education .
Our aim, when working with a school, is to
build up the community’s engagement levels to the extent that they are fully committed to the education of their children
support the school’s community to renovate their schools’ infrastructure
ensure that the community provides a lunchtime meal for their children using a fuel efficient stove, and
ensure that the school has the facilities it needs to provide each child with access to a quality education.
This is not a fast process and requires investment in understanding the challenges that each community and school face. We do this by sitting and listening to the leaders and community members and acknowledging what they tell us. Then, together, we discuss ways to overcome the barriers that are preventing their young people from accessing the quality education they want them to have.
After 10 years of working with Managha and 6 years of working with Malangi primary schools and their communities, we have reached the place where the schools have the infrastructure they need, the community are committed to their children’s education, the teachers are engaged and the academic performance is on the up. Because they have reached the targets that we set, they have graduated from our Education Investment Programme
Managha Primary School
Standard 7 Pass Rate
2013 - 48%
2021 - 95%
At Managha we supported the building of new teachers toilets and renovated and added to the student toilets. We supported the completion of the Head Teacher’s house. We supported the demolition of 3 dangerous classrooms and rebuilt them, we renovated a further 9 classrooms, the teachers’ and Head Teacher’s office. We bought hundreds of text books. We built a fuel efficient kitchen with biogas facilities, installed a borehole with 15,000litres water storage capacity, built 2 cow sheds, for up to 8 cows, a chicken coop, a fish pond, 2 market gardens, planted banana, mango, avocado and papaya trees. Installed drip irrigation for vegetable production, all of which for part of the school’s income generation activities.
Malangi Primary School
Standard 7 Pass Rate
2013 - 28%
2021 - 87%
At Malangi Primary School, the transformation is staggering. With community support we demolished 2 dangerous classrooms and a Head Teachers Office, and then built and fitted out 3 classrooms from scratch, using metal rafters for the first time in a Babati School. We then renovated 6 more classrooms adding new roofs to them. We built gender separated and girl friendly toilets and teachers toilets. We built a kitchen and store with a fuel efficient stove. All the classrooms and toilets have guttering and the school has over 70,000 litres of rainwater storage at the school. We also connected the school to the mains water supply. We built the toilets and kitchens for two teachers houses that had already been started and be built 4 more teachers houses. We designed and built a market garden with net shaded areas and 40,000 litre rainwater harvesting storage capacity.
