This section describes the objectives set by St Bridget Self-Help Group as far as education is concerned. The challenges faced by the community are described in the following articles.
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The mission of St Briget Self-Help Group is to find solutions to these problems and challenges, among which :
- Lack of financing (more funds are needed to develop and extend school infrastructures);
- Lack of school equipment and furniture;
- Scattered housing environment (pupils have to walk long distances (2 to 10 km) to go to primary school);
- Poverty and famine (most of Yenzuva sub-location inhabitants are farmers subjected to irregular rainfalls and harvests);
- High number of orphans;
- Lack of practice of English and Kiswahili, the official languages (only spoken at school).
Aware of these weaknesses and difficulties, the founder members of St Bridget Self-Help Group undertook in :
- Build up school infrastructures close to families living far from Yenzuva Primaty School so as to increase school registration and attendance among young children;
- Open a nursery school to enable young children to join school before primary education (the aim is to encourage children to learn and speak English as early as possible);
- Set up a progressive school fees system that could give every child, including orphans, the chance to go to school;
- Build up infrastructures (dining hall, dormitories, etc.) necessary to accommodate pupils on the compound;
- Provide the pupils with three meals a day;
- Provide pupils and teachers of the nursery school with computer facilities so that children can learn how to use a computer from the age of 4;
- Set up a partnership with Yenzuva Secondary School to give secondary school students an access to computer facilities.