Ngalalya Primary School
Location: Joska Town, Machakos County, Kenya
Amara started working with this school in 2015. Amara was drawn to work with this school because there were no permanent structures and yet student academic performance was impressive. Therefore, Amara decided to build permanent structures to create a conducive learning environment.
Number of students has grown from 250 students in 2015 to 461 students in 2017.
Amara has provided the following:
- Construction of 7 new classrooms and a kitchen.
- Donated desks, teachers tables and library shelves.
- Provided piped water from a nearby borehole.
- Set up a fully functional library in 2016 and upgraded in partnership with Story Moja. Amara was delighted when they were chosen to participate in the Maktaba Award.
- Donated playground equipment.
- Introduced a feeding programme.
- Planted fruit trees, moringa seedlings and sowed acacia seed balls in 2017.
- Donation of new school uniforms to 355 students in standard 1 to 7 in 2018
“A library outranks any other thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert”. - Andrew Carnegie
Dilapidated structures before Amara’s involvement in the construction of new structures
7 new classrooms built in 2015
Kitchen built in 2016, which now feeds over 400 children daily.
Introduction of a vegetable garden to enhance nutrition and act as an educational workshop for future farmers.
Introduced a library in 2016 to encourage a reading culture
Donation of desks in 2015 and text books in partnership with Desai Memorial Foundation
Amazing reads for students in the newly set up library
Text books donation by Desai Memorial Foundation
