The Weather in Toronto, Canada

Ms. Berkal's kindergarten class has been tracking the weather this winter and making a graph. Check out their graph in these pictures. You can see we have had many snowy days. Can you see how excited the children are to share their graph with you? We were wondering - what is the weather like in Maai Mahiu in February?

Desks delivery at Ngeya

Here are the photos of the desks that were taken to Ngeya Primary School in Maai-Mahiu, bought by Albion Heights School in Canada through Comfort The Children International Maai-Mahiu. The desks were given to class one pupils since this is the class that was in worst condition.




Loading the truck with desks













Arrival at Ngeya

Offloading taking place at Ngeya

Mwaniki & Rocky near the CTC car after offloading the desks from the truck

pupils sitting on the floor during their lessons

Pupils carrying the new desks to the class that had none

the class before desks were brought in, there was none and the kids sitting on the earth floor

Mwaniki and Rocky shows the pupils how to arrange desks in the room
















pupils enjoy to see the amazing new class

the whole of class one pupils were now all sitting on the new desks

Pupils enjoyed sitting on the new desks and the only thing you could see was smiles and the kids saying 'God bless you'

Some pictures from Ngeya School, July 2008

These pictures are of Ngeya, the partner school of Albion Heights Junior Middle School. They were taken by Noble Kelly and Konrad Glogowski, part of the Teachers Without Borders team that was in Maai Mahiu last summer.

Introduction

The school was started in 1989 with only 184 pupils in different classes. The first KCPE (Kenya Certificate of Primary Education) examination was done in 1993 and the candidates who did this exam were only 26. The population has been increasing in a great way due to the introduction of free Primary Education by the government that was introduced in the year 2003 after presidential election in the year 2002. During this time many people were displaced and many of them came and settled in Maai-Mahiu. Their children had to continue with education and since Ngeya Primary school is the one that is in Maai-Mahiu town,they joined this school and they were adimitted unconditionally. Pupils came without uniforms, books and other stationaries because many of the parents could not afford and the government had to provide, it has been providing stationaries and teachers for the school only. There has been no enough desks for the pupils to sit on due to the population increase. Currently the population stands at 1600 with 300 desks

Finally, Albion Heights is Online!

Finally, Albion Heights is ready to blog! I'm so excited about this project and am looking forward to sharing information about our school with teachers and students in Maai Mahiu! Look for a description of our school coming in the next few days, as well as a review of our presentation for Black History Month!