Infrastructure Projects
Since Kipawa's launch, we have concentrated most of our activities around Mukuyu, Mutundu and Oaklands schools. Funds from Kipawa donors have directly funded several capital projects.
Classrooms and Counselling Rooms
Kipawa has renovated a number of classrooms, including a new nursery, and has built new classrooms. These classrooms are the most modern in the school and provide a much better environment for teaching and learning than those there before.
Thanks to Kipawa, children are now attending nursery school who would previously not have had any formal education for another year.
We have also provided a new, comfortable, beautifully decorated, cheerful office and counselling room for the counsellor and field workers to work with children individually and in small groups.
Toilet Blocks
We have renovated and built new toilet blocks for boys and girls. The children at the school no longer have to use facilities infested with rats and there has been a marked decrease in incidents of diarrhoea and other water-borne illnesses at the school.
Without Kipawa's supporters, these new toilet blocks would not have been possible.
Food Store and Kitchen Equipment
One of our first projects was to renovate a food store room at Mukuyu school to ensure that the food for the feeding programme could be kept safely and securely.
We have since supplied the necessary kitchen equipment for the programme, including stoves for cooking rather than the open fire which was previously used. These stoves are more fuel efficient, thereby saving money, and are cleaner and safer for the cooks to use.