Alice, the headteacher was currently looking after 720 children (650 a year ago), of which 25% were orphans. Was the number of orphans in the Kisumu County area increasing? Yes, she said, as HIV continued to wreak havoc in many lives. Our trustee remarked to Philemon that fewer children seemed to be sleeping on the […]
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What sort of future will our children be facing when they leave the shelter of CBCH? In the last 8 years, high speed internet has arrived in Kenya. With unemployment in 2009 at 40%, the pessimists grumbled that what Kenya needed was jobs, not technology. But access to the internet has proved transformative leading to […]
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For many years the education system in Kenya has been based on what is called the 8-4-4 system meaning 8 years in primary education, 4 years in secondary and 4 years of college or university. The first 8 years are divided in to lower (Standards 1 – 3), middle (Standards 4 & 5) and upper […]
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