Primary Education.
We run remedial classes and provide learning resources for children from poor families and building schools.
Primary Education.
Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world. Education reduces poverty, empowers women and helps prevent diseases.
Access to free and quality primary education should be a basic right for every child. Unfortunately, in many developing countries too many children grow up without a realistic chance of exercising this fundamental right.
In Kenya since the introduction of Free Primary Education (FPE) in 2003:
- Primary education enrolment increased from 8.99 million in 2009 to 10.18 million in 2013 with 5.03 million and 5.15 million girls and boys respectively.
- On average, primary education enrolment grew at 4.1 percent and secondary education at 9.4 percent annually from 2009 to 2013.
- The primary school gross enrolment rate (GER) was 119.6 percent and the net enrolment rate (NER) was 95.9 percent in 2013.
Girls’ Education
While the provision of primary education is crucial for both boys and girls, according to the UN 2008 Development Report, investing in girls’ education may well be the highest-return investment in the developing world.
The role of effective participation of women in development and the benefit that accrues to them, as a result; for instance high income, better conditions at workplaces and their involvement in decision-making is also important.
Education is central to enabling women and girls to achieve these goals. GENCAD aims to advance creative ways and means that would enhance women’s participation in the process of development both as beneficiaries and agents of change at a community, national and international level.
We will aim to achieve these goals through;
- Provision of quality education for girls
- Community engagement to address cultural barriers to education for girls
- Effective advocacy for women’s participation in the management of community affairs and development activities
- Empower women through life skills training so that they can support their daughter’s access to education
- Advocacy against child labour
You can sponsor a girl for secondary education with £180. Please donate quoting reference SPONSOR.
Support for Primary Education
- Inadequate facilities such as classrooms
- Lack of teachers
- Overcrowding which impacts on the quality of learning (Teacher to pupils ratio in some areas is 1:140)
- High level of poverty
- Nomadic nature of the inhabitants of the region
- Remedial classes for children from poor families especially girls
- Provision of learning resources such as reading books
- Orphan sponsorship
- Provide solar lanterns, chairs and tables for orphaned children to improve their home environment
- Support parents-school engagement
Current appeals
Learn more about the latest projects we are working on.
Rural Education Advancement Project (READ)
Bulla Afra Primary School, Mandera County.
- Build 3 latrines, an underwater tank and shallow well
- Supply 30 three-seater desks
- Provide school uniforms and books to 100 girls
- Remedial lessons for 2 years
Our Impact
