Village Impact schools want to be known as the best schools in Kenya! One of the ways we accomplish this is in tailoring each of our school’s development phases based on the unique needs of their communities. As a general rule, we start with the provision of...
Imagine being born in a productive highland area, and raised on beautiful land you have known all your life. Then one day, your own government sends its police to evict you to from your home and force you to an isolated, semi-arid region. Everything you have ever...
As of October 1, 2019, I have been working for Village Impact for six years! When I joined Village Impact, the mission was the same as it is today, but we have grown to expand the scope of our work. We were just constructing our second school (Springs High School)...
This year, we launched sustainable school feeding and nutrition programs in our schools. Our aim is to provide our students with at least one healthy meal every day throughout the school year. Our hope is that this new program will help to bridge the hunger gap for...
Who are the key partners that help us to improve access to education and transform the lives of children in rural Africa? Teachers. And we’d like to introduce you to one of our awesome Village Impact school teachers who makes a difference to our students every...
Hello! I’m Milkah, and it’s my pleasure to introduce myself to you! I’m many things— wife, mother and counselor with Village Impact. When I began pursuing a career in counseling, psychology was considered a study for those with “problems.” The...
There is a lot of hope for our government’s new standard curriculum. Our previous curriculum involved Grade 8 and Form 4 (grade 12) national testing. The new curriculum is slated to introduce similar national exams in Grades 3, 6 and 12. The aim of the new...
I had just got to work and was settling down when I heard a knock on the door. One of my female students was standing at my door with a worried look. I invited her inside and closed the door quickly—my instincts told me all was not well. We’ll call my student...
Our third annual Making Schools Awesome teacher’s conference was a resounding success! This year, about 130 teachers from our twelve Village Impact schools attended in July at our new venue, the spacious Royal Green Gardens Resort. We decided to make the day...
After rigorous months of planning, the long awaited finally arrived: We were hosting our 12th grade students from all three of our high schools for our first ever Students Entrepreneurship Summit! A “Heaven on Earth” kind of day. Our main objectives were...
Milkah is the latest addition to the growing staff of Village Impact and all of us here foresee us impacting more villages with her on the team.When it was time to have an additional counsellor, the challenge was to get a person who loved people and had the passion to...
At the end of every school year, the top grades at both the primary and high school levels take part in the national standardized test. These exams are crucial in a learner’s life because it is standardized across the whole nation and places their academic performance...
