YOUNG TRIBUNE | MUSTARD SEED
MUSTARD SEED PROJECT IT REALLY IS FINISHED! We now have railings around the school and very happy children, staff and parents, although this has been a difficult time as all come to terms with covid restrictions within the school. We are desperate to get out to see it but I suspect that that may be next year. Luckily there has been very little covid in Mombasa so our children will be returning to school after the holiday despite lockdown in other cities. And wonderful news announced recently was that all teachers and other workers within the school are to be vaccinated. Clearly, we do not want the children to become ill but as there is no such thing as a supply teacher in Kenya it would be disastrous if the teachers became sick for any length of time. Sadly, as I suspected, our KCPE results were not as good as the two previous years. The children missed two term’s work and then had to make up for that in one term. Teachers 50 50 vilvialgetribune agetribune
obviously worked very hard to bridge that gap but it was too difficult. The results were down by 1/3 of a grade from the previous two years with a mean score of C+ rather than B-. Still above average, but disappointing especially for one gifted boy. He ended up with a B+ rather than an A/Awhich would have attracted sponsorship from a bank allowing him to go to a top school. Our next project is to find some land for a playground. This had not been desperately important before because there is a plot next to the school where the children had played. Now it appears that the owner has decided to build on it. Land
prices have doubled since we bought ours so raising funds for this could take some time. Having said that, our greatest concern each year is raising the funds to feed our children. At just £6 per child, per month it sounds so cheap but we have 300 children. We have managed to raise £12,500 so far towards the feeding programme but we need another £5,500. Should you wish to make a donation towards this or would like to regularly feed a child/children please go to our website www. mustardseed.co.uk. Thank you all so much for your support. It is very much appreciated and you can see what a difference this has made.
