NAIROBI SCHOOL PROJECT Mathare Slum, Nairobi, Kenya
Repha Opunde, social worker and teacher, has founded and is attempting to maintain a school by herself in a very small room in the Mathare Slum.
The room that houses the school is in very poor condition; due to drainage that passes beside it, the walls of the school are close to falling in.
With the money NCAD African Awareness has raised in the last two years Repha aims to secure the land on which the schoolroom stands and construct four temporary classrooms in a tent that will seat 100, making the school sustainable.
Repha’s school takes in 75 children for the day, feeding and teaching them while their parents move from place to place scouring for food. During the recent political unrest that occurred in Kenya the numbers of children attending Repha’s school increased to approximately 100 children daily and a lot of her funding was diverted towards feeding these children.
Reading, writing and math are the main subjects taught to the children in the school but art is a strong feature also. Repha has begun doing larger group art workshops and is enthusiastic about using art as a method of education for her pupils.
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