Director's Message

Ingrid Children's Education Centre was formed as a community based school,My wife Grace,my twin brother Eric and I were very eager to provide some basic education to the children of the slums in 2006. Opening a school We needed to have enough resources to enable Us pay for rooms, buy books, pay teachers and water bills. The school started sponsorship program the same year.Due to increased malnutrition a feeding program was initiated where children were fed with a cup of porridge daily. We started with Baby class, Nursery and pre-unit with a total number of 27 children. With the development steering community of this slum and the involvement of the community I can Stand high and give a story how far the school has come. At present we serve 120 vulnerable Children and have a staff of 7 teachers. Children are served with hot lunch and a cup of Porridge dailyand at present we have started  planting Maize in a three acre leased land to sustain the feeding program.
Its our sincere request if you can join hands with us in helping these children to have a bright future.Education is the key to Success.Welcome All!

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What we do

 The Matopeni/Quarry slum is a slum village 15 Km drives from Nairobi City, the capital of Kenya. The overall economic situation is desperately poor. Poverty is at its peak illiteracy, lack of food and medical facilities and care are rare commodities resulting to suffering of orphans. Mortality rate from common disease such as cholera malaria, pneumonia and HIV/AIDS is very high, four out of ten children in this village is directly affected by HIV/AIDS resulting to a handful of orphans who do not have anybody to turn to turn to be flocking in the streets of Kayole and Komarock Estate in search of food to eat. When children lack a firm foundation to accessing education they easily involve themselves in petty crime and hence become law offender posing security threat in the society. Public schools are free in Kenya but are not available to many children and private schools are charging very high fees.
We decided to offer free kindergarten education to the children in the slums because the government had no policy and guideline for early childhood education program.


This led Matopeni /quarry village to open a community based school to try to provide them with education for just 8,800/=) $ 117) a year, an orphan can get a school uniform, one meal a day, and most importantly education ,surprisingly enough all this is out of reach for most orphans/destitute children. From our body line statistics research we discovered 25 of the neediest orphans with no one caring for them. They have in one way or the other dropped out of school to look for jobs to support their younger siblings. At  present we have more than 116 former street children who would like to rejoin school but no means to attain the dream
The squatter village of Matopeni/quarry slum is a home to more than 35,000 residents most of whom live under a dollar a day -women earn a living by making necklaces, basket weaving and a big number work in a quarry farm nearby.

 

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