What is non-formal education?
Non-formal education is any organized, systematic and quality education and training programs, outside the formal school system, that are consciously aimed at meeting specific learning needs of children, youth and adults.
Non-Formal Schools:
Refers to institutions that resemble formal schools in that they aim at transmitting a formalized curriculum leading to formal school examinations.
They however differ in school practices, management, financing, staffing conditions, registration, operating environment and school structures.
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Steve Wanjie (author) is the founder and manager of Wisdom Nest Primary School, A non-formal education center for slum children at Soweto slums, Kayole, Nairobi Kenya.
His blog: Internet Income Register
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Sunday, July 4, 2010
Sponsor a Child in Kenya
A Community Education Lesson on: Sponsor a Child in Kenya
Have you ever come face to face with real poverty?
A crying, hungry, naked, sickly child with house flies hovering all over her running nose and dirty face, have you?
Poverty is a terrible thing because it robs its victim’s human dignity, hope for the future, education, peace and all forms of security.
I speak with authority because I have worked with and for children in poverty situations all my adult life in the slums of Soweto, Kayole Estate Nairobi Kenya.
I see children walk half naked, barefoot and hungry every day because these children happen to have been born into poverty stricken urban slums area families.
No child chose to be born into poverty. And no child gets to choose their parents. To be born into poverty or into riches is by pure chance. The child has nothing to with it.
But you the luck one blessed with the good things in life such as wealth and money and on top of it all, a good education, can surely afford to do something for that crying, hungry, naked, sickly child with house flies hovering all over her running nose and dirty face.
How can a poverty stricken child find hope for a better future?
The answer to this question lye’s with child education sponsorship.
Sponsor A Child in Kenya With Wisdom Nest Primary School :
Wisdom Nest Primary School is a needy child education learning center.
The school sponsors orphans, poverty stricken children, children rescued from child labor, the girl child and children affected by Hiv/aids.
The school has 400 students of age 3 to late teens.
All our students come from Kayole-Soweto slums in Nairobi Kenya. These children are living under stressful poverty conditions and are in need of scholarships.
Sponsor a Kenyan Slum Child :
Sponsor a needy child, orphan or a child rescued from child labor at Wisdom Nest Primary School today.
You will receive child background history, quarterly academic performance reports, letters from the child and growing up photos once every year.
You will be allowed regular communication with the child’s parent or guardian and you can visit the child’s home whenever you like.
Your love and encouragement will bring hope to a child that will last a life time.
Choose To Sponsor a Child in Kenya :
To sponsor a Kenyan child with Wisdom Nest Primary School you need to choose a sponsorship program from the following:
a) School Fees Sponsorship Program:
The school fees sponsorship program is just $10 a month. This pays for tuition.
b) School Feeding Program : Children are provided with hot lunch. This costs just $10 a month.
c) Child Upkeep Support Program:
The minimum cost is $10. You can give more in order to keep the child as comfortable as is possible.
This pays for school uniform, shoes, shoe polish, soap, textbooks, pen, food at home, medical care, birth day presents, and savings for high school and college education.
The parent or guardian gets to do the budgeting for the child’s upkeep requirements and Wisdom Nest does the shopping.
A Sponsor’s Benefit :
Here you get to deal with the child, parent and the school directly without have to go through third parties.
You will be sure your sponsorship funds are reaching the intended beneficiary in the same amount you sent or intended to reach the child or his/her family.
Help Break a Cycle of Poverty :
Sponsor a child in Kenya with Wisdom Nest Primary School and help break a family’s cycle of poverty.
Please choose Wisdom Nest Primary School as your partner in sponsoring a child from Kenya.
Contact us today.
Why you should become a child sponsor, is the next article.
This school depends on your timely support in order to keep these needy children in school. You are welcome to make a donation of you choosing and we say thank you in advance for you kindness. Please donate now:
Needy children pictures.
Have you ever come face to face with real poverty?
A crying, hungry, naked, sickly child with house flies hovering all over her running nose and dirty face, have you?
Poverty is a terrible thing because it robs its victim’s human dignity, hope for the future, education, peace and all forms of security.
I speak with authority because I have worked with and for children in poverty situations all my adult life in the slums of Soweto, Kayole Estate Nairobi Kenya.
I see children walk half naked, barefoot and hungry every day because these children happen to have been born into poverty stricken urban slums area families.
No child chose to be born into poverty. And no child gets to choose their parents. To be born into poverty or into riches is by pure chance. The child has nothing to with it.
But you the luck one blessed with the good things in life such as wealth and money and on top of it all, a good education, can surely afford to do something for that crying, hungry, naked, sickly child with house flies hovering all over her running nose and dirty face.
How can a poverty stricken child find hope for a better future?
The answer to this question lye’s with child education sponsorship.
Sponsor A Child in Kenya With Wisdom Nest Primary School :
Wisdom Nest Primary School is a needy child education learning center.
The school sponsors orphans, poverty stricken children, children rescued from child labor, the girl child and children affected by Hiv/aids.
The school has 400 students of age 3 to late teens.
All our students come from Kayole-Soweto slums in Nairobi Kenya. These children are living under stressful poverty conditions and are in need of scholarships.
Sponsor a Kenyan Slum Child :
Sponsor a needy child, orphan or a child rescued from child labor at Wisdom Nest Primary School today.
You will receive child background history, quarterly academic performance reports, letters from the child and growing up photos once every year.
You will be allowed regular communication with the child’s parent or guardian and you can visit the child’s home whenever you like.
Your love and encouragement will bring hope to a child that will last a life time.
Choose To Sponsor a Child in Kenya :
To sponsor a Kenyan child with Wisdom Nest Primary School you need to choose a sponsorship program from the following:
a) School Fees Sponsorship Program:
The school fees sponsorship program is just $10 a month. This pays for tuition.
b) School Feeding Program : Children are provided with hot lunch. This costs just $10 a month.
c) Child Upkeep Support Program:
The minimum cost is $10. You can give more in order to keep the child as comfortable as is possible.
This pays for school uniform, shoes, shoe polish, soap, textbooks, pen, food at home, medical care, birth day presents, and savings for high school and college education.
The parent or guardian gets to do the budgeting for the child’s upkeep requirements and Wisdom Nest does the shopping.
A Sponsor’s Benefit :
Here you get to deal with the child, parent and the school directly without have to go through third parties.
You will be sure your sponsorship funds are reaching the intended beneficiary in the same amount you sent or intended to reach the child or his/her family.
Help Break a Cycle of Poverty :
Sponsor a child in Kenya with Wisdom Nest Primary School and help break a family’s cycle of poverty.
Please choose Wisdom Nest Primary School as your partner in sponsoring a child from Kenya.
Contact us today.
Why you should become a child sponsor, is the next article.
This school depends on your timely support in order to keep these needy children in school. You are welcome to make a donation of you choosing and we say thank you in advance for you kindness. Please donate now:
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Saturday, July 3, 2010
Why you should become a Child Education Sponsor
Community Education Lesson: Why you should sponsor a poor child’s education.
Did you know that it is possible to make a difference to individual lives through child education sponsorship?
There are children who are desperate to go to school but unable to pay the tuition fees.
Urban slums children are in this category of very poor individuals desperate to go to school but due to dehumanizing poverty they have no chance of ever seeing the inside of a class room.
A child who has never had a hot meal, new clothes, a pair of shoes or toys to play with knows that education can get them out of their poverty predicament but lack of money won’t allow it because the parent or guardian are paupers.
Make a Difference as a Child Education Sponsor:
Education provides a poor urban slums child’s best hope for the life of promise she has been denied by poverty to date.
Your support for a child’s school fees will transform not just the child’s’ life, but the life’s and hopes of a whole family.
Child sponsorship not only provides an education, it also provides some of the joys of childhood to children who due to poverty couldn’t have normal child up bringing.
You can make a lasting difference today by sponsoring a needy child.
Child sponsorship allows you to sponsor a child (in a poverty situation) until the child becomes self sufficient.
What does child sponsorship mean?
This means contributing finances to support the education, health, food, clothing, shelter and security of a child you have chosen to sponsor.
Child education sponsoring gives you the satisfaction of knowing that you made a great difference in someone who need help and you were there to offer it.
Why you should become a Child Education Sponsor was the topic today.
SLUM VILLAGE: A COMMUNITY SCHOOL IN PERSPECTIVE..
Thanks for your visit.
Steve.
Did you know that it is possible to make a difference to individual lives through child education sponsorship?
There are children who are desperate to go to school but unable to pay the tuition fees.
Urban slums children are in this category of very poor individuals desperate to go to school but due to dehumanizing poverty they have no chance of ever seeing the inside of a class room.
A child who has never had a hot meal, new clothes, a pair of shoes or toys to play with knows that education can get them out of their poverty predicament but lack of money won’t allow it because the parent or guardian are paupers.
Make a Difference as a Child Education Sponsor:
Education provides a poor urban slums child’s best hope for the life of promise she has been denied by poverty to date.
Your support for a child’s school fees will transform not just the child’s’ life, but the life’s and hopes of a whole family.
Child sponsorship not only provides an education, it also provides some of the joys of childhood to children who due to poverty couldn’t have normal child up bringing.
You can make a lasting difference today by sponsoring a needy child.
Child sponsorship allows you to sponsor a child (in a poverty situation) until the child becomes self sufficient.
What does child sponsorship mean?
This means contributing finances to support the education, health, food, clothing, shelter and security of a child you have chosen to sponsor.
Child education sponsoring gives you the satisfaction of knowing that you made a great difference in someone who need help and you were there to offer it.
Why you should become a Child Education Sponsor was the topic today.
SLUM VILLAGE: A COMMUNITY SCHOOL IN PERSPECTIVE..
Thanks for your visit.
Steve.
Monday, November 2, 2009
African Bead necklace Project-Poverty Afflicted Slum Women Crying for Help.
A group of poverty stricken women in Kayole’s Soweto Slums, Nairobi, Kenya have
come together and formed a women group with a simple goal, “check dehumanizing poverty” that has afflicted them and their families’ since the dawn of time. They were born into poverty, brought, raised and lived in poverty all their lives. Their children have also fallen victims to the same poverty cycle which is very difficulty to get out off due to lack of education, employment opportunity and trade craft training. Therefore these women have decided to fight back and are appealing for your help in their battle against poverty.
Suffering Single Parents:
Majority of these women are single parents with out any meaningful sources of income because they never had an opportunity to acquire proper and useful education that would help them find employment. They can’t find self-employment either because they have no access to credit facilities due to lack of loan security documents. They live in a world neglected by the government and the rest of the world because nobody cares enough to highlight their plight. Yet they are undergoing immense suffering day in day out.
WINCEP Wants To Reach Out:
That’s why Wisdom Nest Community Education Programme, (WINCEP), a local Self Help Organization, is reaching out to these women who happen to be parents in our needy slum children school, Wisdom Nest Primary, and helping them generate income for themselves and families. WINCEP has no capacity to meet this challenge on its own. We need your support and partnership in helping these women and families fight poverty for the benefit of their children’s future and the community.
The Project is Environment Friendly:
The women have come up with a unique environment friendly project, African Beads Necklace Project, which uses expired calendar paper to produce hand made beads. They then use these beads to make beautiful necklaces and earrings of different designs, sizes and colors. Since the project is recycling used calendar paper we can safely say that these women are helping clean up the environment.
Employments Creation:
Apart from generating income, the project will continue to train and create employment for slum young women as bead makers. Then bead making skills shall be passed on to more slum dwellers. Some trainees’ will find work here while others will self-employ after they acquire the skills.
Profits Sharing:
Profits from this project will be shared between the Project, Women group and Wisdom Nest Primary School. This Project helps woman generate income for herself and her family while her child gets education at Wisdom Nest Primary School courtesy of this project.
How you can help this Women Group, Children and School:
a) Buy Necklace;
Buying a necklace or earring will help this project grow. Buying will ensure a needy slum child remains in school. Buying will feed a slum child and her family. If you buy you will b helping create employment for jobless hungry slum dwellers. When you buy you will be helping fight poverty in an African slum. Buy beautiful African bead necklace or earrings for your loved ones.
The small necklace is selling at $5 per piece, medium at $6 and the large one at $7.
Shipping will cost you $5 a piece. We shall ship your order immediately we receive funds from you. Depending on your location delivery may take up to two months.
No Risk Involved:
If you don’t like it we guarantee to return your purchase price or take a new one in exchange of the one you reject. We can not con you because we are a school and we can’t hide nor can a school run. You can find Wisdom Nest Primary School on http://kidogo.rafi.ki/gemin-iplus/.
All the schools on that site have been satisfied to be genuine by UK government’s British Council. So you are save with us.
b) Help Market;
Out of good will you can volunteer to market our bead products in order to help disadvantaged slum women, children and a school. Help us find a market for our African Bead Necklaces.
c) Buy or Donate:
• Buy now and change a life;
These are beautiful African bead necklace and earrings and can last for many years.
• Donate Now and make a difference in some ones life for ever;
Funds are needed to keep this project going. You can choose to give a donation of any amount. Like any other project, investment and working capital are needed. Your donation will bring a smile on a disadvantaged slum woman and her child.
come together and formed a women group with a simple goal, “check dehumanizing poverty” that has afflicted them and their families’ since the dawn of time. They were born into poverty, brought, raised and lived in poverty all their lives. Their children have also fallen victims to the same poverty cycle which is very difficulty to get out off due to lack of education, employment opportunity and trade craft training. Therefore these women have decided to fight back and are appealing for your help in their battle against poverty.
Suffering Single Parents:
Majority of these women are single parents with out any meaningful sources of income because they never had an opportunity to acquire proper and useful education that would help them find employment. They can’t find self-employment either because they have no access to credit facilities due to lack of loan security documents. They live in a world neglected by the government and the rest of the world because nobody cares enough to highlight their plight. Yet they are undergoing immense suffering day in day out.
WINCEP Wants To Reach Out:
That’s why Wisdom Nest Community Education Programme, (WINCEP), a local Self Help Organization, is reaching out to these women who happen to be parents in our needy slum children school, Wisdom Nest Primary, and helping them generate income for themselves and families. WINCEP has no capacity to meet this challenge on its own. We need your support and partnership in helping these women and families fight poverty for the benefit of their children’s future and the community.
The Project is Environment Friendly:
The women have come up with a unique environment friendly project, African Beads Necklace Project, which uses expired calendar paper to produce hand made beads. They then use these beads to make beautiful necklaces and earrings of different designs, sizes and colors. Since the project is recycling used calendar paper we can safely say that these women are helping clean up the environment.
Employments Creation:
Apart from generating income, the project will continue to train and create employment for slum young women as bead makers. Then bead making skills shall be passed on to more slum dwellers. Some trainees’ will find work here while others will self-employ after they acquire the skills.
Profits Sharing:
Profits from this project will be shared between the Project, Women group and Wisdom Nest Primary School. This Project helps woman generate income for herself and her family while her child gets education at Wisdom Nest Primary School courtesy of this project.
How you can help this Women Group, Children and School:
a) Buy Necklace;
Buying a necklace or earring will help this project grow. Buying will ensure a needy slum child remains in school. Buying will feed a slum child and her family. If you buy you will b helping create employment for jobless hungry slum dwellers. When you buy you will be helping fight poverty in an African slum. Buy beautiful African bead necklace or earrings for your loved ones.
The small necklace is selling at $5 per piece, medium at $6 and the large one at $7.
Shipping will cost you $5 a piece. We shall ship your order immediately we receive funds from you. Depending on your location delivery may take up to two months.
No Risk Involved:
If you don’t like it we guarantee to return your purchase price or take a new one in exchange of the one you reject. We can not con you because we are a school and we can’t hide nor can a school run. You can find Wisdom Nest Primary School on http://kidogo.rafi.ki/gemin-iplus/.
All the schools on that site have been satisfied to be genuine by UK government’s British Council. So you are save with us.
b) Help Market;
Out of good will you can volunteer to market our bead products in order to help disadvantaged slum women, children and a school. Help us find a market for our African Bead Necklaces.
c) Buy or Donate:
• Buy now and change a life;
These are beautiful African bead necklace and earrings and can last for many years.
• Donate Now and make a difference in some ones life for ever;
Funds are needed to keep this project going. You can choose to give a donation of any amount. Like any other project, investment and working capital are needed. Your donation will bring a smile on a disadvantaged slum woman and her child.
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