African Promise - Better Primary Schools for Kenya
Last updated 29/01/2009 09:27:23
Our Promise:
African Promise – the recent initiative of 24-year-old graduate Charles Coldman - is dedicated to transforming the five primary and nursery schools in the isolated rural community of Kasigau in south-east Kenya for the benefit of hundreds of Patrick's fellow pupils and of children for generations to come.
Our extensive programmes of school development are focused on providing Patrick and his friends with modern school environments conducive to productive learning, with educational resources to help make lessons more interactive and to bring them to life, with more books than just a tattered old Enid Blyton novel; and, ultimately, with hope of making their dreams come true.
At the moment our focus is on enhancing physical learning environments. Where classrooms are dusty, dirty and open to the elements we are extensively renovating or rebuilding them. Where concrete latrines are crumbling, infested with disease spreading insects and on the verge of collapse we are installing the most modern sanitation facilities available to rural Kenyan schools.
But this work is only short-term and we are about more than that. We will continue to support the schools even once the major work is complete. Not only will be continue to provide the schools with the resources and materials they so desperately need we will also initiate a number of long-term projects aimed at improving nutrition levels, at introducing modern technologies and at so much more.