Kisumu Project, Inc.
"Making a Difference One Community at a Time"
Adopt a School in Western Kenya
Did you know...?
Additionally, many children do not attend school because they have to help their parents haul water to their home. Girls frequently do not go to school because they have to help take care of the home or their younger siblings.
What does it mean to "Adopt a School?"
When you choose to "adopt a school," you are saying that you want to help the school be a better place for students in that area to receive an education. You, your friends, or your organization then decide how you
want to help the students at the "adopted school."
Ways you help might be:
- build a solar powered water well for the school,
- build restrooms for the school,
- replace a leaky roof,
- send textbooks and school supplies,
- send chairs for students to sit on and have desks
built for them,
- donate new and used computers to the school
so that students are able to gain technological skills,
- send graphing calculators so that students will have
them when they take their Kenyan Comprehensive
Exams for Primary Education. (This is an exam that
must be passed for students to be able to go on to
high school.)
- build a radio tower and transmission station so
students can use it to produce community messages.
When you Adopt a School, you will be able to get to know the students you are helping by writing letters to them. You will learn things about the children and their community.
Adopting a school means that you are not only helping students at that school. Schools are used in a community as a source of knowledge and support. When you help build a water well at a school, girls will be able to come to school, attend classes, and then at the end of the day, return home with the water that is needed by their families.
By adopting a school, you could literally impact thousands of people by your generous deeds.
Below you will see that this school's restroom is in dire shape!
Meet Esibila Primary School
Esibila - March and July 2009 Update
This year has been a busy one! In March, Dr. Brenda Thonsgaard visited Esibila Primary and Secondary Schools in Western Kenya. She was impressed by the warm welcome and excitement that had been brought about by the building of the first water well in the area.
In July 2009, Mr. Kenneth Osore also visited Esibila Primary and Secondary Schools to distribute school supplies and teach several classes. Here are some pictures from our visits.
Phase 1 of Renovations
Present restroom conditions.
1) Collect and ship text books.
(Folding chairs needs to be bought).
All this needs to be shipped in
a 40 feet container. Cost $10,000.
2) Drill water well.
a. Buy pipes
b. Buy a hand pump
c. Buy culvert
d. Build a building to house the well, door, window, roofing and tin
e. Cement, sand, concrete and paint
f. Cost is $2,000
3) Build six boys and six girls restrooms.
a. Labor to dig the restrooms
b. Cement, concrete, sand, tin, doors etc.
Cost is $3500
Phase 2 of renovations will consist of providing the school with class sets of graphing calculators and computers so students can prepare for the Kenyan Certificate of Primary Education Exam. Students who do not pass this exam will not be allowed to attend a high school. In the 2006 school year, only 4 of the 25 students who took the exam passed.
Phase 2 Approximate time is one year.
a. Get graphing calculators; 100 per school
b. Get a generator, 20 KW used $2000
c. Get computers
d. Teach educators how to use graphing
calculators and also how to use computers
Phase 3 Approximate time is 1 year
a. Remodel classrooms
b. Remodel teachers lounge
c. Build a science laboratory
