Children of Kibera Foundation: BRIDGING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE-OLYMPIC HIGH SCHOOL RECEIVES 15 COMPUTERS.

The world is fast becoming a ‘.net village’ with this rapid phenomenon,integrating IT studies in our schools is no longer a question. It is for this reason that The Children of Kibera Foundation is striving to bridge the digital divide by promoting computer studies in schools located in Kibera slums. We believe that this initiative goes a long way into enhancing the effectiveness of the learning process for it gives the students a salient tool: the power to access the net, this gives them limitless access to current and wide information on any given topic of study that they would otherwise not access in their school libraries, too, computer skills makes them be at par with their peers from affluent backgrounds.

On the 15^th day of July; we added ‘a new kid on the block’, Olympic high school joined the growing list of schools with computer labs in Kibera slums. It is the fifth school to benefit from this CoKF’s initiative after: Ayany Primary School, Red Rose School, Kibra Academy and Lutheran School.

CoKF officially handed over 15 computers to Olympic High School. This is a school that serves children from Kibera slums and has a student population of 700.From third term, these students will have the opportunity to take computer studies for they had a computer lab with only 2 computers, the Journalism club will also benefit from the lab for now they will be able to process their bulletins and school magazines with a lot of ease also, a group that was very enthusiastic about the new computers were the teachers, Mr Okumu-The school Principal said that the teachers would use the computers to make the learning process more interesting through PowerPoint presentation and also use them in exam preparations and exam scores processing.

From The Children of Kibera Foundation, we say to the donors who made this noble project possible ‘Asante sana!’ (Thank you!) To Olympic High School we say, ‘let the computer studies begin!’

“Enrolling in a computer college after high school would have cost me Ksh 15, 000, am lucky now I will be computer literate at no cost. Thank you Children of Kibera Foundation”

-The School Head Girl

“Our student now will have the chance of being computer literate and the headaches of preparing for exams and Continuous assessment test is a thing of the past”

-Deputy Principal