In addition to our domestic education work through the Nobelity In Schools program, The Nobelity Project is working to build classrooms, libraries, computer labs and water systems at schools across rural Kenya. Each project is built in partnership with the local community to fill critical needs and provide real opportunity and hope for over 3,000 students. These relationships are personal for us: we’ve been to these schools, talked to the parents and played with these kids. We welcome your support and invite you to become a part of these childrens’ lives.
The Kenya Schools Fund
Mahiga Hope High School and Primary
The completed campus has fourteen new classrooms, science labs, a library and computer lab, kitchen, dining hall, preschool and the award-winning RainWater Court. Over 600 students from preschool to Grade 12 are currently enrolled.
Current needs include textbooks, desks and chairs, sponsorships of students and additional teachers.
Amboni Primary/Simbara Secondary School
The Joe Gracey Library and Music Lab.
We have a wonderful donation of $10,000 and are seeking donations of matching funds to build a combined book and computer library and music lab in memory of Austin music icon Joe Gracey. We’ve already completed a purified water system and are also fund raising for a Chemistry Lab for the high school.
Mutaki Primary School
Our friend Mike Mutuku brought us to his drought-stricken hometown to see the town’s first primary school. The parents are building a new classroom each year (making the bricks themselves). The Nobelity Project is provide the funding for materials and skilled labor. We are also in final planning stage of a solar-powered rainwater system to provide drinking water.
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Bondeni Primary School
Near the Rhino Fence of the Aberdare National Park, Bondeni Primary School now has electricity and clean water for the first time. The school needs textbooks and preschool learning materials. Our long-term goal is to convert four decaying wood classrooms into sturdy stone and concrete structures.
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Irbaan School
A new school near the Masai Mara, Irbaan is growing rapidly and needs an expanded water system, a Library and textbooks.
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Daaba School
Located in the arid Samburu area, the Daaba School is our most remote and challenging location. We’ve recently completed two new stone classrooms and have replaced a dangerous open well with a new solar-powered well that will save lives and provide clean water for the school and the Turkana and Borana communities who live in this area. There is a great need for textbooks and classroom materials, as well as nutritional support.
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Kabiruini Girls Secondary School
A beautiful school on the slopes of Mt. Kenya, Kabiruini has over 300 girls, many of them living in dorms of the campus. The girls are very enthusiastic about our new Library and the adjacent Computer Lab. There is an ongoing need for additional library books, a Computer Instructor and Internet support.
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Mugaka Hill School
Mahiga Hope High architect Joseph Kagiri took us to his home village, high in the Aberdare Mountains. Joseph was the youngest of 22 children in his family and the only one to be educated. Working with The Nobelity Project, he has built the first stone classroom and new water system. Enrollment is growing rapidly and the school needs a second classroom building, books and desks.
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Talek Primary School
Near the Talek Gate of the Masai Mara, this very large campus has day-school and boarding students and a great need for a large-capacity water system, Textbooks, Library Books, Girls Sanitary Supplies and Mosquito Nets to help prevent malaria for the students in the dorms.
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Honi School
Many 8th graders graduating from the Honi School attend Mahiga Hope High School. Honi now has electricity and purified water for the first time, but still has a need for textbooks, desks and other learning materials.
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Loigero Primary
Another rapidly growing new school in the Masai Mara, Loigero Primary needs Textbooks, Desks and Chairs, support of girls to keep them enrolled after reaching puberty. There is also a structure which we hope to convert to a library.
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Kieni Youth Million Tree Program
This Youth Empowerment Program sponsors tree-planting at schools in conjunction with soccer matches and other special events. Students are educated on deforestation problems in the mountain areas that have been logged for timber, charcoal and farming. Before the students can kick a ball, they have to first plant a tree. In the past few months, students at our schools have planted thousands of trees in memory of our friend and Kenyan mentor, Wangari Maathai.
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