Kitengela Magareza Mixed High School
Location: Kitengela town, Kajiado County, Kenya
The school was started in 2017 with a population of 150 students. Currently the students’ enrollment is 1900.
Amara started working with this school in 2018 as there is great potential for growth in student population here. Also, there is no public secondary school in Kitengela town.
Chart by Visualizer
Amara has assisted with:
- Donations of assorted reference books and curriculum text books
- Donation of sanitary towels
- Setting up of a library in May 2018
- Planting a mini forest/orchard of fruit, shade and flowering trees. A total of 417 tree seedlings were planted from January to August 2020.
- Construction of 10 classrooms was completed in September 2019
"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another”. G.K. Chesterton
The newly constructed double-storey block of classrooms
Ribbon cutting by Ananya Dave at the official handing over ceremony
The ongoing construction of 10 classrooms at first floor walling stage
Construction at foundation stage
The Amara team and consultants during a site visit meeting
The trees have grown and thrived. The paw paws and berries started fruiting by October 2020.
