Mainly thanks to donations from guests of The Sanctuary at Ol Lentille. who have given well over £100,000 over the past 3 years, we support 6 community Primary schools: Kimanjo, Ngabolo, Musul, Naiperere, Raap, and Parkurruk and a further 4 nursery schools: Nkiloriti, Narasha, Rumate and Tiemamut. In February 2011 we opened Kimanjo Secondary School with phase one of buildings, books, teachers and students who cannot afford boarding fees elsewhere. We have a four-year development plan to complete the school.
We employ 19 teachers and assistants in Primary, Secondary and Nursery schools.
Bursaries for secondary education are awarded to the most needy and brightest.
Since 2007 we have built Ngabolo School, already running at full 8 year capacity with classrooms, nursery, library and administration buildings, books, teaching equipment, fencing, vegetable garden and water tanks, plus housing for 6 teachers. Rehabilitation of the nearby dam has provided clean water to the community and water is pumped up to the school to a large holding tank. Other building projects have taken place at Nkiloriti and Musul (www.sherstonmusul.com). Laptops have been donated to Kimanjo and Ngabolo.
The mothers sew uniforms with machines and materials donated by guests.
Food is purchased for Nkiloriti nursery throughout the year and additional food is bought for Ngabolo and Kimanjo to supplement inadequate government stocks.
We continuously host a range of volunteer students and experienced teachers from the US and Europe to work in the schools, teaching English, computer skills, sport, setting up web sites (www.ngabolo.com) and working with our ‘Become a Friend’ schools (www.becomeafriend.net)
Through our Quality of Teaching and Learning Fund, we are training 7 new teachers, and 5 of our current teachers have completed training. All teachers are local community members.
The majority of our past and present staff at Ol Lentille are local community members, and thus we have provided a large variety of training ranging from catering and housekeeping to guiding, driving and beauty therapy.
How Can I Help?
Enter the 3 Peaks Challenge for Education
24 Hours - 3 Peaks - 1 Winning Team
Do you think you could climb Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon in under 24 hours? Do you think you could do it faster than any other team? Do you think you could raise £1000 per team for education in a remote Maasai community in Kenya?
Do join us!!
Entry Fee £7 per person
To enter, e-mail Gill Elias at gill.elias@ol-lentille.com
We need your help to maintain our current programmes and implement new ones.
Categories for gifts include buildings, equipment, teaching resources, and sports facilities. We also have a programme for providing meals to schools (as the government of Kenya is unable to provide regular school feeding). Our Quality of Teaching and Learning Fund pays teacher salaries (there is insufficient state funding for teachers), and fees for bright and committed young local people to train and get qualified at good quality Teacher Training Colleges, and to return here to contribute their skills to their own community.
Some examples:
* £1000 funds the salary of a junior teacher for 1 year
* £500 puts a young person through a 2 year teacher training college programme
* £200 pays for a child's secondary school fees for 1 year
* £50 feeds one young child for a year at primary school
We have also been privileged to have been able to attract interns/gappers as well as experienced teachers from overseas to teach and advise on teaching.
University
So far, too, generous people have funded two of our young people to go to University. Good University education in Kenya is extremely expensive - £20,000 for a first degree. Our first student, Christine Sinore graduated 2010 in Sociology. Timothy ole Mosiany, sometime Head Guide at The Sanctuary at Ol Lentille, is currently studying Conservation and Rangeland Management at the University of Nairobi. He will graduate in 2012. Three other local young people are also being sponsored at Universities in Kenya. We would like to give many more young people the opportunity of high quality tertiary education.