Waymarks Education Centre, Moi's Bridge, Kenya

"Our desire and prayer to God  for the needy and orphaned children under our care is, that they might grow up to know Jesus Christ as their friend. We want them to become very important adults. Some of these children lead very hard lives in the nearby Kambi Suswa slums where they live with their guardians as the photo showing many grassy houses reflects."

Pastor Maurice Chesoli,

 

Digging a well at the new school site

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  A small school serving an area of deprivation in rural town where less than $1 a day poverty afflicts the majority of people in the community

The centre currently caters for over 100 children three quarters of whom have lost one or both parents. All live in poverty. Many homes lack blankets for the children to sleep under. Even providing basic clothing can be a challenge for those caring for the children.
At the Centre they get food and education and such simple basics as tooth brushes and tooth paste. The centre opens at 7:30 in the morning and closes at 5pm. This is the routine from Monday to Saturday. On Sunday there is church and Sunday school plus a meal. 
 There is basic education provide at both nursery and primary level. In 2009 we managed to get the school to the required standard to be officially registered. This mean that the children in grade 8 will be able to take the national school certificate examinations Few children have any chance of progressing to secondary school.
The main source of support and funding has come from 3 churches in Kenya. Church members have given food, money, clothes and time to keep the Centre open.
The post election violence that hit Kenya in 2008 it changed peoples circumstances and their ability to give in the way they did prior to the problems. As a result the Centre is finding it hard to keep up it’s programme of education and the provision of basics like food.
Other casualties include basic maintenance of latrines, furniture and educational materials such as books and pencils. 

We heard about the centre and its plight. We are now working with Maurice and his team to not just get back to where they were, but to move on and build a school on its own land with enough accommodation for three time the number it presently caters for.

January 2010

new classrooms being built on the land
we are purchasing

the old classrooms and the new

the old kitchen and the new

Kambi Suswa slums and children we want to get
into school when it has the capacity

the furniture maker and the market

The market and our maize fields

inside an old classroom