The Five With Drive Fanikisha Foundation
Soweto Slums, Kayole Estate, Nairobi Kenya, East Africa
Members meeting held on 23rd October 2010 at Jan-Kean Learners School at 9am.
Members Present:
1. Elijah Ngugi...................Jan-Kean Learners Center
2. Steve Wanjie...................Wisdom Nest Primary School
3. Francis Kinyua.................Shilo Community Center Prep. School
4. Millicent Oriyo...............MerryLand Community Center
5. Salome Muturi..................Waylight Education Center
6. Everline Nabwire...............Emmanuel Children & Care Support
7. Maureen Ombima................St. James Academy Soweto
Absent With Apologies:
Benjamin Maina.............Country Representative- FWD Fanikisha Foundation
Agenda:
1. Election of interim group officials
2. Why we started non-formal learning centers
3. The common needs prioritization
4. Any other business
The meeting was opened with a word of prayer from Pastor Kinyua.
Minute 1 - Election of interim group officials
MR Ngugi proposed that members hold elections to put an interim office in place for better coordination of group functions. He proposed that Pastor Kinyua be the chairman and was seconded by Everline. Pastor Kinyua was elected by 5 votes against 2. Therefore, Pastor Francis Kinyua was elected interim Chairman.
Maureen proposed Steve be elected the Secretary and was seconded by Salome. Steve garnered 4 votes against seven casted. Therefore Steve Wanjie is the interim secretary.
Steve proposed Millicent for the post of treasurer and he was seconded by Pastor Kinyua and by a show of hands all members voted for her. She garnered seven votes. Therefore Millicent Oriyo was elected interim treasurer.
Elijah Ngugi was elected to the position of Project Coordinator after he was proposed by Everline and seconded by Maureen.
No assistants were elected because members felt that the current offices will serve the group well for the time being.
Minute 2 - Why we started non-formal learning centers
a) The majority of members observed that children in their neighborhood were not going to school. There are many reasons but the main one is that slum children are not getting vacancies in public schools because they can’t compete for the limited places with children from well up families.
b) Most members agreed that their centers were started in order to give poor slum children an opportunity to go to school. So many slum children were and are not going to school and the urge to find a solution is big.
c) Members observed and saw children being lost to drug abuse, crime, alcoholism and to HIV/AIDS. To solve this problem the thought of starting a school to help mould children’s character at their young age was reinforced.
d) Everybody at the meeting started his/her center because of their love for children. Therefore, all members agreed that they wanted to start a center whereby every slum child could come regardless of whether they had school uniform or not. A center where a slum child could find a friendly environment just like what he/she is used too.
e) Some members saw children suffering from hunger and decided to do something about it. They started as care and support centers to feed neighborhood children. Because these children were not going to school, they were forced to start teaching and that’s how some centers came about.
Members agreed that the common thread that drives all of us to start non-formal schools is our love for children and the urge to want to assist them get an education despite the difficulties and challenges we face trying to it.
Minute 3 - Needs prioritization
After much debate members came up with a priority needs list;
a) The biggest problem that keeps slum children out of school is hunger. Even those in school can’t concentrate in class work if they are hungry. All members voted to have feeding program as need number one.
b) When a child is fed now teaching them becomes easy according to Salome. Therefore Salome proposed that instructional materials be posted as our priority number 2. This was passed without opposition. Lack of textbooks and other learning materials is the largest impediment to quality education delivery in our schools. This is inclusive of classroom furniture.
c) The next huge challenge is the provision for teacher salaries. Schools can not afford to pay the minimum teacher salaries as required by labor laws. Parents are not able to pay school levies thus our centers are always short of adequate funds. The teaching staffs we have work on voluntary basis and 95% are untrained teachers.
d) The centers operate from rented premises unsuitable for school use and thus the classrooms we have are not proper classroom space because they are too small. The solution to this problem is to buy school plot and build proper classrooms. Due to lack of land most of the centers have no sanitation facilitates and that is terrible.
Priority List summary:
a) Feeding Program
b) Instructional Materials
c) Teacher Salaries
d) Proper Classrooms and Sanitation
e) Teacher training
Officials:
Country Representative.................Benjamin Maina
Chairman...............................Pastor Francis Kinyua
Secretary..............................Steve Wanjie
Treasurer..............................Millicent Oriyo
Project Coordinator....................Elijah Ngugi
Minute 4 - Any other business
There being no other business the meeting was closed with a word of prayer by Millicent at 1pm.
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Steve Wanjie-Founder,
Wisdom Nest Primary School.
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Friday, October 29, 2010
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Year 2009 eleven years old pupils photos.
Picture no. 1
Picture no. 2
All the pupils in the two photos are eleven years old. They would love to make new friendships
with children from English speaking world.
PICTURE NO.1
Standing from left to right:
Alice,Brenda,Philis,Josephine, Mutuku, Antony.
squatting left to right:
Dickson, Alice Mukii, Phaustine, Samuel, Ruth.
PICTURE NO. 2
Standing left to right:
Justine, Dennis, Rosemary, Lydiah, Mercy, Damaris.
Squatting left to right:
Brian, Gregory, Asher, Samuel Otieno, Juliah.
PICTURE NO.1
Standing from left to right:
Alice,Brenda,Philis,Josephine, Mutuku, Antony.
squatting left to right:
Dickson, Alice Mukii, Phaustine, Samuel, Ruth.
PICTURE NO. 2
Standing left to right:
Justine, Dennis, Rosemary, Lydiah, Mercy, Damaris.
Squatting left to right:
Brian, Gregory, Asher, Samuel Otieno, Juliah.
The adult in both pictures is the School Director Mrs Susan Njeri.
Would you mind helping Susan keep these needy slum children in school?
The school accepts donations of any amount because we know that even $1 can feed a child break-time porridge and lunch for one day.
Thank You,
Would you mind helping Susan keep these needy slum children in school?
The school accepts donations of any amount because we know that even $1 can feed a child break-time porridge and lunch for one day.
Thank You,
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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