Boost for Kakamega rural schools over Sh20m sponsorship deal

“At Shivakala Primary School, the institution made an application that it is grappling with an ever-growing population of learners with few classrooms, a situation that had led to overcrowding of learners, making it difficult for them to get quality education and under a safe environment and as a foundation we came in and catered for everything,” said Gathoni.  

Gathoni said that the foundation has invested at least Sh20 million and that they intend to scale up our programs across the country's health and education sectors.

“We are looking to scale up our programs and the scale-up will be more of a partnership model, where we work with partners in the same areas to combine our resources and expertise to offer more solutions to the community,” said Gathoni.

Gathoni acknowledged a high number of applications from various schools across the country, urging the learning institutions to apply for sponsorship.

Ambassador Aggrey Shitsama, the Patron and alumni of Shivakala Primary School urged all stakeholders to join hands and give back to society especially in the education sector to ensure the smooth and successful of the Competence-Based-Curriculum CBC.

“We want to thank KPC in collaboration with our DPP who is also an alumnus for ensuring that out of the shortage of six classrooms, we have solved it by constructing two classrooms so that our learners can have a conducive and safe environment for their learning and due to shrinking of land we request KPC to start constructing a storey building to utilize on the limited space the school has,” said Shitsama.

He added, “We need to support CBC because it is here to stay and one way of supporting it is by having more classrooms.”

The KPC foundation also handed over a Sh5 million girls' dormitory at Bukhaywa Secondary School that will host at least 200 students.