Natunini seems to be enjoying her English lesson.
Thank you to everyone who has sent us books via our Amazon Wish List. Amazon is the only reliable way to get books out here. Customs knows that there are only books in their packages (and it doesn’t seem that anybody wants to steal books) so we receive packages from Amazon within only a few …
He doesn’t know how old he is, we think he must be in his 80s. This wonderful Mzee has been coming to the school to help the children learn about local history. His talks have been entertaining and enlightening. Even the parents have been discovering things about their history they never knew.
It was very exciting to receive the first ever delivery of books from Olng’arua School’s Amazon Wish List. . And where else in the world can you get Amazon books delivered by camel? . To everyone who sent us books, thank you. We now have so many lovely books to read and it couldn’t have …
There were elephants on the playing field today, they often come into the marsh at night but today they came a bit early. Maybe they wanted to play football with us.
Tumaini Isiolo e.V. has once again sent us a generous donation. This time we spent the money on books and tables. The need for books is obvious, no school in northern Kenya has enough of the. Thanks to Tumaini Isiolo we have been able to buy some reference books as well as the essential text …
We don’t have any swings or slides, climbing frames or sand pits; Olng’arua School doesn’t have any outdoor play equipment…. or does it? The children seem to find plenty in the natural environment around the school to climb on, swing from, dig in and slide down.
I have spent the last six weeks with two other people sharing knowledge and skills with the staff and students of Olng’arua Primary School, a remote school in Isiolo County. Like many primary schools in northern Kenya the school has young and untrained teachers with little experience outside their communities. The school operates on a …