OUR ANNUAL MUSIC FESTIVAL BECKONING!!

Our 3^rd annual Children of Kibera Foundation Music Festival is just around the corner! This is a special day for the children of Kibera fraternity for they get that single golden opportunity to showcase their artistic side of life. It is a festival of expression, a forum for artistic articulation, a platform to catapult a Kibera talent into showbiz prosperity.

This year we have joined the mood of transformation, transition is in front of our very naked eyes, the changes we bear witness to in our beloved country have a salient catalyst: ‘OUR NEW CONSTITUTION’ and so we have given this year’s participant room to utilize utmost artistic liberty and create work exploring our running theme: ‘Katiba Mpya, Kenya Mpya?’ yes, we have a new constitution, will Kenya change for the better?

Join us this July, from 8^th -9^th at Kibra Academy-along Karanja road. Host a table! Bring IEC materials! Volunteer! Tell a friend! Come be part of this amazing transition.

Creating the mood...

Round and round we go...

Best Foot forward!

Children of Kibera Scholars - A Brand of Achievers!

In all the recent prize-giving days we have attended, not a single one has passed without our scholars winning awards. We can now emphatically say that we are A BRAND OF ACHIEVERS! As a group of scholars attending the top schools in Kenya through scholarships from Children of Kibera Foundation, we motivate each other, we share best practices, we benchmark, we insist on quality, we work as a team.

We have already attended five prize-giving days and our scholars in these respective schools have not failed to prove that indeed they are top performers.

1. Hussein Kassim -- Top Five in Form 1 Class at Lenana High School.

2. Linet Akinyi -- Best in History in Form 3 Class at St. George's Girls' Secondary School.

3. Mohamed Musyimi -- Best in Kiswahili and Agriculture. Position Two overall in Form 2 Class at Aquinas High School

4. Zainab Abdallah -- Scooped three academic awards for excellence in French, Biology, and Physics at State House Girls High School.

5. Sally Woka -- Position two overall in Form 2 Class at Pangani Girls High School.

We are anticipating more awards for our scholars as the school term progresses, and so when you see our bright shining faces, our beaming smiles, our heads held high, know that we bask in the glory of being a brand of achievers and TEAMWORK is our ingredient to success.

'The form 3 scholars inspire me,
I also want to top my class in this term's exam'-Hussein Kassim

'I want to be the best I can be'-Muhamed Musyimi
'Now I have my eyes set on the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Examinations(K.C.S.E)'
-Zainab Abdallah

My first move...

I need more of this...


well done Kassim at Lenana

Now top your class Sally at Pangani ...

Watch this space Aquinas, the best is yet to come!

CoKF Hosts CIEE Faculty Development Seminar

On Friday July 10th, Children of Kibera Foundation received visitors: a group of professors from various American Universities led by Ken Okoth on a CIEE International Faculty Development Seminar.

The delegation commenced their excursion with a visit to Kibra Academy where they visited the school’s computer lab (donated by CoKF), this was followed by a brief ‘vantage point tour’ of Kibera slums where the visitors got a feel of our organisation scholars’ ‘catchment area’, this led them to the doorstep of Olympic Primary School-a huge beneficiary in terms of their high graduate absorption into CoKF Scholarship scheme, after a brief chat with the principal, they ascended the sloppy terrain of the school into Olympic High School, this was a very special visit for this school is set to receive our latest batch of at least 20 computers this month for their computer lab.

Their whirlwind tour was wrapped up with a stopover at our offices where the visitors had the opportunity to interact with the Red Rose pupils and engage them in the learning process.

Thank you for visiting our projects and inspiring our pupils! We wish you a pleasant stay in Kenya, the land of breathtaking scenery, rich culture and warm people.

Whose next!

So this is the Olympic we've been hearing about!

proud alumni!

Panoramic View

At Kibra Academy Computer lab...

our last shots...

When The School Fund Team Came Calling

Children of Kibera foundation was lucky to receive The School Fund Team: Matt Severson (President,), Saeed Hassan (Operations Officer) and Roxana Moussavian
(VP Strategy &Development) last week at our offices.

After a tour of our offices and having a feel of the education sessions at the Red Rose School, they had an opportunity to take a walk in Kibera-Africa’s second largest urban slum and had a firsthand experience on the kind of lives that some of our scholars hosted on their scheme live in.

The next couple of days were occupied by whirlwind school visits where TSF staff was able to meet: Alex Kiilu (Dagoretti High), Erick Otieno (Pumwani High) and Apollo Oduor (Hospital Hill High) three of our four scholars receiving scholarship courtesy of being hosted on their website.

As they plan to visit Uganda and Tanzania we tell them ‘Kwaheri na karibu tena!’-Safe journey and welcome back!

'TSF meets CoKF'

At our Library...

'The School Fund was here!'