Children’s Education

Primary education is now compulsory and is funded by the government but the reality is that a family is expected to pay for water, books, uniform, the school cook, sometimes a desk and even the teachers’ salaries, excluding many families from being able to afford to send their children to school.

UNICEF has reported that over a million Kenyan children are not in school. With little to no state welfare system a good education is valued, and seen as a way out of poverty.

For many people in the slums of Nairobi, the cost of sending children to primary school is beyond their financial means.

How we help

We support Compassion CBO who provide primary school education at the Compassion CBO Children’s Centre (known locally as The Greener Life School). They help these children up to class 6 and then arrange for them to join a government school. The school is currently based in a church hall since the diocese tore down the school. They are currently fundraising to buy containers to use as classrooms and looking for land to rent on which to permanently base the school. Compassion CBO ensure that every child is fed, and educated in line with the Kenyan National Curriculum. They are also looking to support the children as they leave the Greener Life School and go on to higher education.

Currently there are ten teachers, three of whom hold certificates specifically in Early Childhood Development Education. The school opens its doors from 6:45am to 5:00pm and takes both girls and boys from Githogoro, Huruma, and other surroundings slums within Nairobi City. The population of the school stand at 150 and keeps growing every day.

Since 2005, Compassion CBO has enabled 1250 vulnerable children to gain access to education.

The children sponsored through The Janna Foundation attend The Greener Life School as part of the Child Sponsorship programme.