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Posted by: David Omondi  Dear Donors, We have come to the successful end of the final semester of the year at Akili School. We thank you all so much for your incredible generosity that saw us provide clean water for all the 44 girls at the boarding school for the entire school year. For the entire year, no student at Akili School fell ill due to contaminated water as was the case in the preceding years. Your generous donations ensured that we installed massive water tanks and harvested over 50,000 litres of water for the girls. We also had enough water for our gardens and through sustainakility club, the girls grew different vegetables and sweet potatoes thereby providing 100% of the schools vegetable needs! The girls learnt a lot about small scale farming and sustaining their school. We saved upto $200 that we used to spend to purchase water every term. This was directed to meet other important costs of feeding the girls at the boarding school. As we prepare to welcome 15 more girls to the boarding school, we feel that the current water will suffice. We are now directing all our attention and energies into building a LITERACY GARDEN aimed at developing the knowledge, skills and talents of marginalized rural girls and children to promote literacy, food security, environmental stewardship and healthy lifestyle and nutrition through establishing a literate environment for girls and children in a farm setting in South West Kisumu Kenya. Riley Orton Foundation is committed to improving literacy and through this contributing to nation building and sustainable development. This project will provide a safe and inspiring space; an open library in a garden setting where girls and children can meet everyday after school to improve their literacy skills, learn how to write, share their stories with the world, and learn how to value their own and other people’s stories. They will also learn how to grow food using simple small scale solutions based on permaculture and other regenerative agriculture practices. They will have the opportunity to prepare different meals in the farm kitchen, reduce stress through yoga at the garden, develop their talents in music, drama, dance and public speaking, and learn numeracy skills through pretend play shops at the garden. More info about this work is available here: https://www.rileyortonfoundation.org/about3.html We invite you to continue partnering with us by giving here: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/akiligardenandsports/ Thank you so much for your partnership and commitment to create access to free education to underprivileged girls. We couldn't have done it without you!  Girls preparing potatoes they grew at the school  Girls happy with their harvest  Girls at school
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Posted by: David Omondi  Teachers and staff capacity building Dear Donors, We are grateful for your contribution towards paying wages for our staff. We hired 2 new teachers who have helped immensely in teaching our girls at the boarding school. With the support of volunteers and sunflower foundation org Australia,we also hired a computer instructor who taught the girls basic computer skills and etoys programming. We believe that hiring qualified teachers,we believe that we are on the right path to providing quality education toour girls. This semester,we held capacity building sessions with curriculum support officers from the ministry of education in a bid to improve their effectiveness in deleivering the approved govt curriculum. We are admitting 15 new students from Obunga Slum in January 2018. We are hiring one new teacher at $1200 to teach 3rd graders coming from obunga slum. Kindly partner with us again to raise funds to hire and pay our teachers and allow 60 girls to learn and lift themselves out of poverty. Thank you  Akili School Teacher  Akili School Obunga Campus  Teacher training
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