Destiny Garden School, Mombasa
We are delighted to support Destiny's Children kindergarten feeding programme that would enable 140 children to be given a nutritious lunch, five days a week, throughout their school year.
Destiny Garden School is situated in Mtongwe, one of the poorest suburbs of Mombasa, on Kenya’s coast, and provides an education for very poor and disadvantaged children, some of whom would not otherwise be able to go to school. The school was founded in 2009 with 160 children and has been growing steadily since then, now educating 420 children. The school was established in May 2009 by Jacob Boaz Muoga, the school’s Director, and is an independently run charity school with no state funding.
In Mtongwe, unemployment is as high as 85% and families struggle to make a living; 30% of the children in the area receive no education at all. The school currently has 420 children, some of whom are orphans living with extended family, or are from single parent families; several are HIV positive. The main aim of the school is to provide these children with a good education to help them escape from poverty, so the school only employs well-qualified teachers, and class sizes are kept to a maximum of 35. The school also provides clean drinking water and a nutritious lunch, which is the only proper meal many of the children receive during the day. The school currently employs 24 staff: 16 teachers and 8 ancillary staff including a manager, cooks and security guards.
Destiny Children, a UK registered charity, was formed in November 2009 and covers the running costs of the school, which include the salaries of the teachers and support staff, educational materials, and the provision of lunch and clean drinking water for the children. It also aims to help the school to develop with new facilities and to improve its existing facilities.
When the school was established in 2009, it became very clear to the teachers that many of the children were coming to school hungry and had no means to bring or buy lunch. This meant that they found it hard to concentrate in class, and so their ability to learn was severely affected. Some of Kenya’s rural areas and slums are amongst the poorest in the world and many children suffer from malnutrition and poor health, so the school and the charity decided to feed the children at midday to help them in their quest for education and thus a means to escape poverty.
The feeding programme was established in 2010 and since this time, a marked improvement has been seen in the children’s levels of concentration and overall performance in the classroom. Attendance rates have also improved, because parents who would otherwise have kept their children away from school to complete household chores now send their children to school in order for them to receive a proper meal.
To support this project visit our fundraising page here.
In Mtongwe, unemployment is as high as 85% and families struggle to make a living; 30% of the children in the area receive no education at all. The school currently has 420 children, some of whom are orphans living with extended family, or are from single parent families; several are HIV positive. The main aim of the school is to provide these children with a good education to help them escape from poverty, so the school only employs well-qualified teachers, and class sizes are kept to a maximum of 35. The school also provides clean drinking water and a nutritious lunch, which is the only proper meal many of the children receive during the day. The school currently employs 24 staff: 16 teachers and 8 ancillary staff including a manager, cooks and security guards.
Destiny Children, a UK registered charity, was formed in November 2009 and covers the running costs of the school, which include the salaries of the teachers and support staff, educational materials, and the provision of lunch and clean drinking water for the children. It also aims to help the school to develop with new facilities and to improve its existing facilities.
When the school was established in 2009, it became very clear to the teachers that many of the children were coming to school hungry and had no means to bring or buy lunch. This meant that they found it hard to concentrate in class, and so their ability to learn was severely affected. Some of Kenya’s rural areas and slums are amongst the poorest in the world and many children suffer from malnutrition and poor health, so the school and the charity decided to feed the children at midday to help them in their quest for education and thus a means to escape poverty.
The feeding programme was established in 2010 and since this time, a marked improvement has been seen in the children’s levels of concentration and overall performance in the classroom. Attendance rates have also improved, because parents who would otherwise have kept their children away from school to complete household chores now send their children to school in order for them to receive a proper meal.
To support this project visit our fundraising page here.
