NEW SCHOOL UNIFORMS FOR KAGER ORPHANS

The Kids and the Champions

On September 7, the Jubilee Village Project had the pleasure of distributing new school uniforms and leather shoes to 23 orphans in Kager village as part of our Education sector efforts. As part of promoting the small seamstress business of Jane Anyango (a recipient of a microloan from the JVP Kijiji Benki microloan program), she made some of these uniforms to help promote her business.Uniforms are the official attire for schools and colleges in Kenya. Each school has its color, and so it is with the primary schools in Kager. In both primary and secondary, it is a must the students and the pupils must have official school uniform at all times when they are in school. Lack of this, warrants suspension from school, which results in missing of academic lessons, and entirely poor perfomance. For the schools in Kager, many of these orphan pupils lack the school uniform, and as a result of this, they are either intimidated by the teachers or fellow pupils, which brings stress and low esteem for their studies. Some have very worn and torn out school uniforms that makes them look shaggy and in very poor outfit. Students are not allowed to go to school without school uniforms, however the school headmaster can only allow such a case if the program of making one is on, but this is usually discouraged. As a result of mental stress, intimidation from fellow pupils and teachers, some opt for dropping out of school, and get involved in bad habits. At this point, school uniforms becomes important in impacting their education versus other provision back at home. The fina result of this, is that a student can stay at home for over a month because of the same, which normally leads to school drop out or poor academic results.The Kids of Oneno Primary School”

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Andrew Aduda, Education Champion, developed the proposal for the uniforms and shoes for the ophan children (about $25 each) and worked with the headmasters of the four schools in Kager village to identify the uniform recipients.  School children and their parents came to the Community Resource Center and received their new uniforms in an official program.  This is what Andrew had to share about the program:

“The transformation as a result of uniform/shoes provision, may not be fast tracked, but will be slowly realized. There are good brains among the little children in Kager village, and I believe as a community, we should be proud of this young brains. We should nurture them well and allow them to grow with the right ambition, attitude and love for their village. Their input in the future of this village, depends so much on how they are brought up. I believe, JVP showing such a love to this vulnerable group of children in Kager, will stir the hope of some of them, and make them pursue their education with vigor, knowing that they are not alone, but God knows their faith. “

The plight and suffering of orphans in Africa is real.  In a community where families often do not have enough food to feed their own children, adding another mouth to feed is hardly imaginable.  The scourge of HIV/AIDS is leaving a dark and deep scar in millions of children in Africa as they lose one or both parents to this pandemic disease, and they are left behind to be raised by a single parent, grandparent, relative, foster family or an orphanage.  As with all of the Jubilee Village Project’s programs, our goal is not to build dependency on an outside agency, but rather to encourage, equip empower the family unit and the community to achieve their own transformation.  In regards to helping address the orphan crisis in Africa, JVP’s strategy is to come alongside families that take in orphans and help them develop the means to do this (and not build orphanages that are expensive to operate and are hugely dependent on outside funding).

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