Jan and Terry Umbach first visited Ndandini September 24th 2007.
Seeing how dry and poor the area was, they promised to try to get the villagers a water well.
Here we are 10 years later.
Much has been done beyond the well that was drilled in 2010.
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| Water from the well being delivered to Muusini Primary School |
Join our Rotary Club Sunshine Coast-Sechelt to be a part of our work in this desperately poor and famine prone area of eastern Kenya. Or help us by contributing via this website's "donate here" tab.
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| The well site provided in 2010 still working today in 2017 |
Here's a HISTORY of our work since September 2007 in the Ndandini/Kyaithani/Lower Yatta area of Kenya.
Over $428,000CAD has been invested since 2007 (not including the personal cost of 13 visits by Terry and Jan over the past 10 years).
Non-Rotary donors have contributed significantly (see below).
Rotary has executed three Matching/Global grants for:
- the well in 2010
- the tractor and bowser in 2012
- the computer labs and solar lights in 2016-17
There have been many other smaller projects and the scholarship program that is making a major impact on the community.
Source of Investment Funds to Date (for all our project over the past 10 years):
Non-Rotary $107,265 25%
Other Rotary Clubs $92,913 22%
TRF World Fund $72,843 17%
RC SC-Sechelt $47,793 11%
District 5040 $40,765 10%
TRFC/Gov of Can $35,406 8%
Other Districts $31,375 7%
Total CDN$428,360
The CURRENT Rotary Foundation GLOBAL GRANT #1413848 (approved November 2015)
"The primary overall objective of the Global Grant project is to improve the academic performance of primary and secondary students in the 'cluster' of schools in the remote, famine-prone, and extremely poor Nandini/Kyaithani are of eastern Kenya. Student enrolment in the 2 secondary and 5 (now 6) primary schools is about 1300 children."
Major Global Grant project deliverables (4 phases):
Computer lab with 21 computers and satellite link at both secondary schools (completed September 2016) now being used by over 400 secondary students.
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| The computer lab at Lower Yatta Secondary School |
Solar light rent-to-own program for students and teachers in 7 (now 8) schools; 1500 lights provided and almost totally subscribed since January 2017.
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| Students at Lower Yatta Secondary with their new solar lights |
Teacher training program enrolment for 70 primary school teachers (pending next course date/availability)
Direct teaching support or electronic teaching aids for 5 (now 6) primary schools (now working to define deliverable as a result of Kenya government's commencement of providing computer tablets at primary schools but with no teacher training).
CURRENT GLOBAL GRANT BUDGET (in US$)
Budget Spent Status
2 Computer labs $60,000 $59,259.12 complete
1500 Solar lights $10,000 $9,797.91 complete
KICD PTO training for 70 teachers $7,700 $0 Note 1
Teaching aids for 7 (now 8) primary schools $15,000 $0 Note 2
Project Management $6,000 $2,400
Admin/Kenya travel $2,864 $2141.50
Total USD$101,564 $73,598.53
Note 1: waiting for Government of Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development who has delayed planned 2016 implementation date
Note 2: new Kenya Government program providing computer tablets at primary schools removes need for our project to provide computers there, but creates a serious need for primary school teachers to be trained to use them
SOLAR LIGHT RENT-TO-OWN PROGRAM
No electricity in homes in this area. People are very poor subsistence farmers.
Budget was for 1100 solar lights costing $10,000 total.
Reduction in price permitted the purchase of 1,500 SunKing Pico lights (for same cost) by the Global Grant Project.
Rent-to-own program developed by us and being administered by Kenya Connect.
Kenya Connect has their own solar light rental program also operational and modelled after our plan.
Payment by parents of USD$1/month for 8 months during the school year buys one light for their child.
Rental proceeds used to buy more lights for the program for more student participation in following years.
These initial1,500 lights could result in 6,000 lights in operation by students within 4 years.
Lights have 2 year warranty and 5 year life expectancy.
The displaced cost of Paraffin is several times more than the monthly cost of the solar light.
SOLAR LIGHT SUBSCRIPTIONS (by teachers and parents for their children)
246 Lower Yatta Secondary
190 Kyaithani Secondary
84 Nthilani Primary
104 Ndunguni Primary
169 Muusini Primary
130 Kyaithani Primary
76 Ndandini Primary
31 Llovi Primary
226 Kenya Connect schools
1256 subscribed to date
244 still in stock for subscription
1500 total
SCHOOL TEACHERS/ADMINISTRATORS education
4 individuals for each of the Primary schools have been registered to enrol in the next online PTO (primary Teacher Orientation) training course conducted by the government's Kenya Institute for Curriculum Development (KICD) with the $100 enrolment fee paid by the Global Grant project. We are awaiting announcement by the government of the next course date. This is a year long course taken online to help teachers introduce computer technology to the students and introduce the use of computers into the curriculum. Teachers receive a formal certificate upon successful completion of the course.
The remaining Primary school teachers will also have their enrolment subsidized by the Global Grant project in the next subsequent course.
SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM for Secondary Students
The Scholarship Program started in 2011 with 9 scholarships. This year (2017) we provided 60 scholarships.
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| Jan receiving thank you letters from Kyaithani Secondary students |
We provide $150CDN per year per scholarship as a partial assistance towards the annual cost of more than $400USD for these students to attend secondary school. We provide partial funding in order to try to help as many students as possible.
During the past 7 years since the start of the program, 220 scholarships have been awarded totalling Cdn$33,000.
The program is funded almost exclusively by non-Rotary donors (we are trying to get more Rotary Clubs to participate).
The RC Sechelt-Sunshine Coast has contributed a total of $5700 and now has committed to donating $1200/year.
St. Hilda's Anglican church in Sechelt has been a major partner with our Rotary Club since 2011, having contributed over $22,000 in total. One parishioner from St. Hilda's visited the Kyaithani Cluster of schools last October with us.
Each scholarship is for one year at Cdn$150. The Scholarship Fund has reserves in trust of Cdn$18,000 so that each of the current 60 scholarships is fully funded for its remaining years (until secondary school graduation) at $150/year, even if annual donor contributions were to completely cease.
Each scholarship recipient must have graduated from one of the Cluster Primary schools (as we are attempting to upgrade the level of education within the local community).
Scholarships are awarded based on academic achievement and selected by the principals of Kyaithani and Lower Yatta Secondary schools.
DISTRIBUTION OF 60 SCHOLARSHIPS (Cdn$9000 in 2017) 21 Boys and 39 girls
Kyaithani Secondary Lower Yatta Secondary
boys girls girls
Form 1 4 4 6
Form 2 6 2 6
Form 3 7 3 6
Form 4 4 6 6
BURSARY PROGRAM (for vocational/technical school enrolment at Syongila Polytechnic)
This is a trial program, started 2 years ago.
3 students are being funded by a private non-Rotary donor who is interested in providing education in the trades.
Cost is $600/year/student for a two year boarding school course at Syongila Polytechnic in nearby Kitui.
The donor has now provided more funding so that another three students can take a 2-year vocational training course.
Titus did his KCSE (Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education) exams and qualified with a low grade. The teachers felt that he would not compete well in other academic courses. The teachers recommended that he enrol in the vocational program. He chose the motor mechanics program. In two years he has completed four years of courses! He is requesting that we fund his final 2 years of courses in order for hime to have his top Grade 1 Mechanics certificate.
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| Titus and Terry |
Boniface was a form two student in Kyaithani Secondary but academicaly weak and requested that he transfer to a technical institute. He is now completing his second year of the Building Technology (masonry) course at Syongila PolyTechnic near Kitui. He stands 2nd in his class. Boniface is requesting that we fund his next 2 years of the masonry course.
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| William and Boniface (in purple) with their Syongila Polytec teachers |
William did his KCPE (Kenya Certificate of Primary Education) exam in 2012 graduating from primary school. His desperate family could not afford for his secondary education. He is now an orphan with several siblings. He is now enrolled in the 2nd year of the Motor Vehicle Mechanics Technology course at Syongila PolyTechnic near Kitui. William is doing well standing 7th in his class. William is hoping that we continue to fund his next two years of masonry training.
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