support for education in rural Kenya
Our new library is about to open and in celebration of National Library Week and our new library…. the only one for over 100km in rural Kenya, our rockstar Librarian, Esther Muinde wrote a blog sharing our work! Here’s an excerpt, “At the library, community members have been able to get reliable information. For instance, …
Award winning poet, author, and educator Kwame Alexander visited Kenya Connect! As part of our work to build a culture of readers, we invited Kwame to visit Wamunyu to inspire our students and teachers through reading aloud, storytelling, teaching, dancing and playing with our community. Our students recited some of his poems, listened to him …
by Sharon Mwende, Kenya Connect Intern Every year, March 8 is celebrated as International Women’s Day which has been observed since the early 1900s. It is a global holiday celebrated annually to commemorate the cultural, political, and socioeconomic achievements of women. It is also a focal point in the women’s rights movement, bringing attention to issues …
Join us for the KC5K Run/Walk on Saturday, March 26 at 9:00 am LIVE in Ellicott City, MD or VIRTUALLY anywhere in the world! Prices increase on March 7th so sign up today! https://runsignup.com/kc5k2022
Kenya Connect’s Professional Learning Coordinator, Rebecca Akinyi Migwambo, wrote this piece, “Professional Learning Communities: The Hub to Upskilling Teacher Practice” in celebration of our 20th anniversary! Days, months, years, or even decades after graduating from teacher training institutions, teachers encounter many learning opportunities in the classrooms which are sometimes quite challenging to them but still …
2021 was another banner year for Kenya Connect! Here’s a few stats: 319 Wings Poa Reusable Sanitary Pad Kits were distributed bringing our total to 890, 39,914 books were checked out of our library, 2564 PenPal letters were exchanged, 422 students participated in LUV STEM classes and 69 teachers were part of Empowered School Professional …
It’s GivingTuesday and we invite you to make a donation on GlobalGiving and your DONATION WILL BE MATCHED! Here’s the link: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/computer-literacy-for-kenyan-schoolchildren/ Your support will help launch our 20th Anniversary Year and will provide enrichment and empowerment programs to students, teachers, and parents at our 62 public partner schools. Would you rather send a check? …
Have you ever made Chapati? Join us for a Virtual Field Trip to Kenya which will include a Chapati making lesson with Chef Vicki! This Family Friendly event is FREE, but you must register on Eventbrite so we can send you the link. Register HERE! Join your host James Musyoka on Wednesday, November 10 at …
We are super jazzed and honored to be named a 2021 Team4Tech partner. Over 300 non-profits worldwide applied with Kenya Connect selected as one of 10 partner s. We are thrilled to join partners from Uganda, Peru, Guatamela, Vietnam, Jordan and Mexico. With the mission of improving the quality of education for under resourced learners …
One of the “strengths” of the LitClub curriculum is curiosity. In an effort to spark our LitClub students’ curiosity, we made arrangements over the October holiday break to take the students from the eight LitClubs from our Empowered Schools: Ngangani, Kisola, Maanzoni, and Sofia for a field trip. The students visited nearby Muthoki Lodge where …