Infrastructure Projects
Since Kipawa's launch, we have concentrated most of our activities around Mukuyu and Mutundu schools. Funds from Kipawa donors have directly funded several capital projects.
Classrooms and Counselling Rooms
Kipawa has funded the renovation of 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 until they reached primary school age.
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
New, hygienic school toilet blocks have been built, ensuring children no longer have to use facilities infested with rats. Additionally there has been a marked decrease in incidents of diarrhoea and other water-borne illnesses.
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 food for the feeding programme could be kept safely and securely.
We have since additionally supplied 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.