The year 2017 started on well and very busy with students reporting to their school

s and five girls joining Kenswed High school in Rongai and we are very greatful for the support that we received during the whole process from searching of school, interviews and admission.

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We are praying for a great year for all our students and hope they will all perform well with the introduction of the new school curriculum that was introduced by the government from the 8-4-4 system.

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We have had few challenges with the new students who went to Kenswed and one of the droped and went back to her former school. This was a case of indiscipline because her reasons are not concrete for the action she did. The other four I had a meeting with them on Monday 6th Feb and later with the headteacher. One of them want to go back to day school but at the same school which I explained to her the challenges of commuting daily from Kibera to Ngong and the costs implication on the parents side as KCE will not be responsible for the expenses. I hope she will change her mind on that as the principal promised to talk to her.

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Here in Kenya its very hot and dry and some places are experiencing drought. We are praying for rain and some areas have started receiving rains though in very small quantity. We have power and water rationing due to the condition and things are very turf. There is also the election campaign fever and we are praying for peaceful election in August unlike the past .

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We are excited to have Karina, Marta and Eva visiting us and also the students at Kenswed. We had a meeting with them on 4th of February which was a great meeting.

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/Emma Marichu

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Kind regards

Emma Marichu

We are fine and thanking God for the rains after a long time. As we come to the closure of the year the kids are looking forward to the annual party that we do for them, they are so excited and talking bout it every day. This year our school calendar was changed by the education ministry and schools closed the first week of November hence we have had a good turn up of the kids everyday and we have been keeping them busy at the centre. This year we dint have students in Primary school seating for their final primary exam, so we will not have any student joining form one next year. In high school we have five students who are currently doing their final exam which will end on 2nd of December and we are praying and hoping that they will do their very best.
Due to the change of the calendar schools will reopen early the first week of January.
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In Kenya currently the political climate is so high since we shall not have election in December as the norm but in August so the campaigns have already started and we are praying that they shall be peaceful and we request you pray for us so that we do not go the 2007 way. Currently we are experiencing drought in some part of the county like Kilifi where deaths have been reported but we thank God for the rains that just started and we hope that it continues to rain as the cost of food has already gone up. but we pray that all shall be well.
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Thank you for your continued support and i shall send more updates after the party with Pictures of the party as well and hope to get pictures of snow as well to share with the kids during the party

Emma

Hi,

I hope you are well and enjoying the cool climate there. We are well and enjoying our winter 😉 hahahaha

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We started the month with kids going back to school after April holiday. and we have been having our daily activities that is tuition during the week and fun day on Saturday which has attracted alot of young children after introducing a program for them with Snaider, this is a great progress and we are hoping for more better things in Future.
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We are experience lots of rain which is a blessing but its causing havoc in some areas at the moment we have our winter come summer hahaha, very cold and hot at the same time so confused 😉 . On the sad part this month has been experiencing black Mondays which i guess you have read or watched in the news with opposition demonstrating on the streets every Mondays to have the IEBC removed due to lack of confidence with the electrole body. this monday was the worst as Kibera was a no go zone after protesters burned tires on the road and stole from people. but all in all we thank God for we are safe and no one in KCE was caught in between.
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We have also good news from our rugby team which worn a shied for the first time and we produced the top player in the world 😉 Injera after breaking world record on trials hit. hahahaha not everything is black after all.

Looking forward to sending more positive updates.

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Kind regards

Emma Marichu

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As another year draws to close,I wanted to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you to all our kibera children education sponsors who have generously supported our work over the last one year and beyond…….this life changing work couldn’t happen without your financial support.