The 2018 school year started on January 3, 2018. All our schools opened on this day with the brand- new schools (Sanmarico and Ndatho) officially starting on the January 4th and 8th respectively. Shalom Primary School The school started enrolling students into...
November 22, 2017, was a day filled with anxiety for all students who sat for the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) final examination. There was a lot of skepticism about the authenticity of the just-released results and some stakeholders felt that the...
Kenya is in the midst of huge change regarding its educational systems. As a growing nation, Kenya has been trying different education systems to better fit its changing needs. Since its independence from the United Kingdom in 1963, the country has had two educational...
Hip hip hooray! We made it to 2018! Happy New Year 2018 to everyone reading this. It would not be a new year without us recounting some details about our previous year as an organization. At World Teacher Aid, we had one of the most resourceful years yet! We started...
One of the richest business moguls in America after the civil war in America, it was Andrew Carnegie who stood out and made the most impact. Born into a poor family in Scotland, he managed to make a reputation for himself through the steel industry to the point of...
My first day of work at World Teacher Aid was exciting and I could not wait to begin working as a field officer. I engaged and worked with my colleague Sam, who is well versed with the area and has experience working within the organization. I was eager to learn from...
From the last week of July 2017, we started construction of our third school this year in Ndatho farm in Subukia area of Nakuru, Kenya. The school aims to bring in students from Ndatho IDP’s resettlement farm as well as those from the surrounding communities since the...
As time goes on, we have been accelerating our efforts to reach more communities. To this end, we have moved to a new community called San Marco farm near our first school Shalom. San Marco is located just 20 kilometres from Nakuru town on the opposite side of the...
After years of promises and delays, the Kenyan government finally fulfilled a promise it made to transform the education sector through the use of technology in the classroom. Towards the end of the first school term (March 2017), the government sent each public...
On 18th February 2017, teachers from all our project schools gathered at Hotel Waterbuck in Nakuru for the first WTA Teachers conference. The one day conference’s aim was to bring together the teachers in our projects schools into a common forum that sought to deliver...
Springs Hope has been accepting students since Monday. So far, the students have been trickling in steadily, and the school continues to grow as they start classes. The deadline for registration is this coming Monday, a full week for parents to register their...
I am so, so, excited, the Choir will be here very soon! What is even more exciting is that we only have one table left for our third annual Gala. I have been busy preparing the details for the event, and still have a few things to do. If you have not ordered your...