Secondary (HS) students in Africa go to school from 6:00am-6:00pm!!! Education is everything to them! Primary (elementary) go to school from 6:30am-3:30! Class sizes run between 60-70 students! Corporal punishment is the rule here...our kids were a bit disturbed at the kids being whipped. But Joey said he can only imagine how overwhelming it would be to keep 70 students under control, let alone get any teaching done. It is very easy for kids to slip through the cracks. The even sadder thing is that for every classroom full of 70, there are another 70 children their age NOT in school because the family can't afford tuition, or because the children are needed to care for other family members or to help run the family business and sell things for food.
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| Raila Educational Center was the school where we would do Kids Club (VBS) every day, one of the many schools in the Kibera Slum of Nairobi Kenya....over 1 million people living within a 1 mile square radius. Those children whose family can earn enough to pay the school fee and buy the school uniform, are fortunate enough to have a distraction from the depressing rigors of homelife and improve their chances at a successful future. Education gives those with no hope, at least a glimmer of hope. For only $150 a year, you could empower a child by giving them an education! Please email us if you are interested in changing a life! You can choose a primary girl or a boy. For a secondary student it is $327 a year. Children who are not at school are more vulnerable...vunerable to abuse, vunerable to disease and illness, vunerable to starvation (at school they are fed a cup of breakfast porridge and a noon meal....for most it is the only food they see in a day and often take some home for their families), vunerable to violence and trouble, forced to grow up faster from life "on the street", the list goes on and on. You cannot understimate the power of an education! |
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