Village Impact’s North American team visited projects for the first time since Covid—they found lessons in resilience and hope in the face of adversity.
Thankful for Lessons of Resilience and Hope
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Counseling Matters- Recovering From Community Conflict in Kenya
Scaling up support for guidance and counselling at our schools has been among the core programs at Village Impact for many years and its making a substantial difference to students and their communities.
Beyond Kids in Classrooms: What Impact Looks Like at Village Impact
Your impact goes beyond children in classrooms. See the ripple effect of how you are making a difference for the long term in the lives of people in Nakuru, Kenya.
The Incredible Power of Good Hygiene to Empower Students
Children Taking Charge of Their Hygiene From mid-January to mid-March this year, Village Impact organized the distribution of Emergency Hygiene Kits and three liters of all-purpose liquid soap to each student in our 13 schools. We reached 4,300 students in all our...
Kenyan School Closure Update
COVID-19 forces 17,000 students out of school On March 15, 2020, the Kenyan government closed schools and colleges nationwide in response to COVID-19, disrupting nearly 17 million learners countrywide. Since schools closed in Kenya, the ministry of education and other...
COVID-19 UPDATE
In the midst of an unprecedented global crisis, Village Impact is committed to the health and safety of our staff, students, and partner communities.
Making Our Schools The Best Schools
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 text...
Hope and Restoration
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...
Feeding Our Future
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...
Celebrating Teachers Making a Difference: Meet Richard Nyamiaka
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 day—Mr....
Six Years, Six Lessons
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)...
Rolling Out the New Curriculum
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 curriculum...