Welcome to Ngeya Primary School

Ngeya Primary School was started in 1989 with only 184 pupils. In recent years, the population has greatly increased due to the introduction of Free Primary Education in 2003, internal displacement after the elections of 2002 and 2007, and population growth in Maai Mahiu town.

Currently the population stands at 1700 students with 300 desks, 18 classrooms (most unfinished), and 12 teachers. The school has a lunch feeding program provided by Kenya Kids Can. The classrooms have no electricity, and currently there are no computers at the school. This blog is updated from Kenya by Ngeya Primary students working on two donated laptops which are brough into the school twice per week by CTC Rafiki Link educators.

On this blog you will find posts from Ngeya Primary school and partners from around the world. Read and enjoy!

Sunday, February 22, 2009

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

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