Moindabi
The Moindabi community is located in a valley at an elevation of 6000ft around 100kms to the north west of Nairobi, Kenya. Home to around 1000 families – typically comprised of 10 or more members living in a 2 room tin shack – support comes from an acre or so of cropped land and a handful of animals. With at least half the population of the area being children, it’s clear that any possibility for forward momentum in this agricultural region will depend on two things – education and water.
Water
Over the last 5 years, the Moindabi valley has experienced a significant climate shift. Reoccurring drought patterns in recent years have seen crops fail and the community suffer drastically as a result. While a bore supplied by NGO World Vision has thankfully allowed locals to tap into a well-surveyed aquifer underneath the valley, the supply method doesn’t allow for any mass gravity distribution or irrigation system. For many children this means time that could be spent in school is instead needed for fetching and carrying water.
be* has partnered with the community’s pre-existing water committee:
to provide water to a school.
to develop a staged valleywide water reticulation rollout to the community, enabling kids to attend the school rather than walking 3 to 7 km to fetch water.
install a fluoride reduction filtration plant at the school, to improve water quality and to give the school the opportunity to sell filtered water to the community.
enable farmers to install and use micro irrigation techniques to increase their crop yields.
Projected cost of this staged water project $350,000 NZD
Project Status: staged project is predominantly completed
Moindabi Project Breakdown
Further ongoing staged work:
water storage tanks
further reticulation
pump maintenance
random water quality testing and assessment
The water project has been a community effort and now each family has their own water tap!
Education
With a well established, government registered school in the valley, the community is attuned to the importance of education in seeing future generations grow, learn and develop the opportunities around them. If a child has a secondary school education, then in later years they can potentially run a business. As with most schools in this area however, Moindabi is restricted by the challenges of poor facilities, and high teacher turn-over due to low pay, no accommodation and challenging teaching conditions. Teachers often walk several hours every day just to get to their classroom.
The education project in Moindabi is a project building classrooms and teacher accommodation (estimated at $300,000 NZ), helping the school to attract better teaching talent as well as increasing capacity allowing a secondary school programme to grow and provide much needed improvements to the learning environment for the children of the valley. This estimate also seeks to cover a growing school role, inflationary cost increases, building and designing future classrooms and an admin block.
Estimated Cost of Project $300,000 NZD
Project Status: Ongoing
Education Project, Moindabi
This project has been a huge success. Classrooms have been built, a fluoride reduction filter is in place at the school.
Further ongoing work:
The admin building is soon to commence.
Kibera
In Nairobi lies the Kibera slum, home to an estimated one million people and a metropolis as filthy and corrupt as it is thriving.
New Adventure School
Within its endless warren of mud shacks and polluted streets of Kibera,New Adventure School provides over 400 children with primary school education and at least one much-needed meal each day. Tthis was our first completed and fully operational school within Kibera.
After the fire
New Adventure School initially consisting of one hall with teachers struggling to conduct five classes within this space. Since partnering with be* has assisted New Adventure School in relocating to a more appropriate site, where it now has twelve classrooms, a cookhouse, toilets and a play area. be* also provided support to rebuild when a devastating fire which ravaged a significant portion of the slum unfortunately damaged a section of the school.
The school is now fully operational and be* has completed our work with this project. Other donors have come on board to look after the ongoing needs of the school.
Total Cost of Project $80,000 NZD
Project Status: Complete
New Adventure School Project, Kibera
The completed New Advanture School
Adventure Pride School
Adventure Pride School is our second school in Kibera and a sister school to our first educational facility. The term ‘pride’ comes from the concept of a family of lions.
There was an Urgent Need
Adventure Pride School buildings were demolished to make way for a road.
be* appealed to our wonderful supporters for NZ$30,000 to purchase land to enable new classrooms to be built. This was most kindly donated….
thank you, thank you, on behalf of the children from a horrible and challenging place to live.
Estimated Cost of Project $130,000 NZD
Project Status: Ongoing
Adventure Pride School Project, Kibera
The purchase of adjoining land is ongoing. Further adjoining land is available for us to purchase.
Can you assist?
There is a big demand from families living within Kibera to have their children attend the Adventure Pride School due to its reputation, results, and incredible leadership team.