Throughout the year we have provided each student with a piece of fruit each month, as an incentive for healthy eating. August to December we complimented the fruit programme with the provision of over 20,000 school lunches.
The school have had some administration problems involving their finances and so we helped them short term for a critical time to ensure the students were eating, while the school sorted out the problem. It was highlighted to us in November that the tap in the school was not working. The students were walking to the stream and back carrying water for everyone to drink during class time, and to cook lunch with. Clean and accessible drinking water is vital, especially in a school of 700 students. We explored alternative methods to help resolve this and had a wonderfully generous donation which enabled us to build new taps in the school. These were finished in January and the students now have access to a sanitation block with 10 taps.
With the help of our public supporters we were able to raise the funds to give the gift of stationary to all the students in Kikavu primary school this Christmas. Stationary is something many families cannot afford. We are so pleased to be able to help provide these gifts because not only will it help them in class with their creativity, but it brought so much joy. Each pack cost just 75p and every child was given a notepad, ruler, pencil, rubber, sharpener, pen and colouring pencils.