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NCEDP Shortlisted for Pan-African Awards
We are happy to announce that our close delivery partner the Ndhiwa Community Empowerment and Development Project (NCEDP) has been shortlisted for the Pan-African Awards for Entrepreneurship in Education. The nomination is based on the programmes that NCEDP and Team Kenya have developed in Ndhiwa. The awards, hosted by The Saville Foundation and Teach A Man To Fish, celebrate organisations and charities leading hands-on entrepreneurship training programmes or using business solutions to fund education for young people in countries across Africa. NCEDP is one of 50 other organisations shortlisted for this years’ awards, with the winners to be announced in…
Read moreCarmel’s Placement in Ndhiwa
Earlier this year, I visited Ndhiwa on a research and volunteering placement with Team Kenya, as part of my MA International Development and Education at Newcastle University. In a few weeks, I’ll be handing in my dissertation and putting on my Team Kenya vest for the Great North Run. So, as two very different finish lines creep nearer, it feels a good time to reflect on what it’s all for. Here’s what it’s like to be on placement in Ndhiwa… Karibuni Eco Cottages Like most Team Kenya volunteers, I stayed at Karibuni. This place is much more than accommodation. It…
Read more18 Month Report: Brighter Futures
Here is our full Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Report on the Brighter Futures programme and the impact of the programme in its first 18 months. Thanks go to our volunteer, Alyssa Koenig, who wrote the majority of this report using information collected by our implementation partners, NCEDP. Background Brighter Futures is a current community outreach project run by the Ndhiwa Community Empowerment and Development Project (NCEDP) and fully funded by partners Team Kenya UK, which aims to use football as a tool for engaging girls and boys in gender equality conversations to help reduce Gender Based Violence (GBV) and…
Read more18 Month Update: Brighter Futures
Our Brighter Futures programme uses mixed gender football as a vehicle to educate the community on issues, including gender-based violence and gender inequality. The programme initially provides interactive lessons to boys and girls at partner schools, before community outreach sessions are held to ensure that all groups within the community receive this vital education. Brighter Futures has now been operating for 18 months and evidence demonstrates that the programme is having a positive impact in reducing gender-based violence, child marriage and teenage pregnancies. In Ndhiwa, where Team Kenya works, only 15.7% of girls continue into secondary education – with gender-based…
Read moreTop Ten Achievements in Ten Years
#TeamKenya10 Guess what? It’s officially our 10th birthday this year. So, to celebrate, we’re going to shout about our top ten achievements since our lovely CEO, Valerie Wilson, founded us in 2008. 1. In the past decade, Team Kenya has impacted over 60,000 people with our programmes in Ndhiwa, including over 20,000 girls. 2. Our successful Raising Achievement programme – which works alongside schools to improve the quality of teaching and, you guessed it: raise achievement, is now being expanded to 28 schools. When we started this partnership in 2012, one partner school – Arina Primary, had no girls in…
Read moreRaising Achievement in Ndhiwa!
Team Kenya’s Raising Achievement programme works alongside four schools to improve the quality of teaching. Enhancing the quality of teaching gives girls and boys the opportunity to perform more effectively in school, and as the name suggests… raise achievement! The programme has had a positive impact upon our partner schools, with each school experiencing more students completing primary education, rather than leaving school at some point in their primary years. One partner school, Arina Primary, had no girls in the final year of primary school when partnership with Team Kenya was established six years ago. This number has increased to…
Read moreKoduogo School Business Farm
Koduogo Primary school has over 1,000 students and only 8 teachers, making class sizes of over 100 a common theme. One of the classes currently learns under a tree and those taught in classrooms are cramped with limited resources. Two years ago, Team Kenya invested 200,000 Kenyan Schillings (approximately £1,500) in a school business farm at the school. The motivation behind this was to generate income to contribute towards school improvements and to more effectively meet the need of girls. Maize, bananas, soya beans and eucalyptus trees were planted, whilst sheep were purchased to do this. The school now has…
Read moreAspire Scholarships
Team Kenya’s Aspire Scholarships programmes ensures that girls from particularly vulnerable backgrounds can access the education they need to lift themselves out of poverty. Plus, given that educated women tend to invest 90% of what they earn into their families, the benefits aren’t only experienced by the girls themselves. In the past, the programme has provided school fees and general support to girls through sponsorship. However, we are now empowering the mothers of poor girls through the development of women’s groups and entrepreneurial skills, such as sustainable agriculture training, beadwork training and small loans to enable women to establish small…
Read moreImpact report 2017
Your support means we are able to deliver vital projects in Ndhiwa. You can find out more about the impact of these projects in our recently published report. We hope you enjoy reading about how your donations have helped achieve some amazing things for the women and girls of Ndhiwa. Impact report highlights Improved teaching practices for 3,500 students 2,000 pupils with access to clean drinking water, toilets and hand-washing facilities 1,800 family members with improved food security 425 women trained in sustainable agriculture 6,000 people trained in child rights and school-related gender-based violence prevention 84% of 2017 income spent on project costs…
Read moreLucy’s story
We have always taken a holistic, person-centred approach to development at Team Kenya. Over the last ten years we have seen that problems can rarely be tackled in isolation – a girls’ school fees may be paid, but she may fall ill, or be pulled out of school to look after her siblings. Taking this approach sometimes makes explaining what we do complicated – essentially, we want to keep girls in school, and we do this by supporting them in whatever way they need to be supported. For some girls this means providing extra care packages such as personal care…
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