Location: Samburu/Shaba National Reserve, Kenya
Underway: Two classroom building
Current Needs: Well Rehabilitation and Classroom Construction
Partner: Well Aware-Austin TX and Sarova Shaba Hotel, Kenya
At Daaba we faced the biggest challenges (by far) of any of the 15 schools where we’re working in Kenya. Extreme drought, a remote and hard-to access location, a dangerous open well that required kids to climb into the deep, dark ground for water, tribal conflict during construction that had hundreds of armed raiders driving out the local population – it’s hard to imagine more challenges than those presented at Daaba.
But one year later, the outdoor classrooms under the hot sun have been replaced by this new stone classroom building. And a solar powered well is providing water for the school and the local community. A great success, but there is still need at Daaba. Textbooks, textbooks, textbooks. Without them, these kids cannot progress up the education ladder.
And a bit more good news. The first group of Daaba 8th graders are now registered to take the 8th grade exit exam – the KCPE – the first kids from the Daaba school to advance to this level. Onward and upward!
Old open Well
