My Story
I have a degree in education and I am a teacher by profession. I am married with 2 kids and in 2011, I started a school next to my house in Kisongo. (Arusha). We had a few pupils around the community who were not able to acquire an education. Most of the children were from Maasai homes. It was not an official school but I started to teach them in a very small building. Later we expanded as Mr Alan helped us to build one classroom, which we still use now (my wife teaches the nursery children here). In 2018 we had the idea to expand this school as the demand for education for Maasai kids was increasing day after day. We decided to go to another site in the centre of a Masaai community and by 2021 we had built two classrooms.
By 2022 we got official registration from the Minister of Education and we started to enrol children. We started with 10 children. The parents of the children were impressed and really appreciated what we were doing. In a short time, the children were able to speak English and when the people saw our impact, every year we continued to have many pupils join our school. Now we have 90 pupils. We expect to have many more pupils in the years to come as we are doing great work and the teachers are teaching very well. The children are getting food at school and they have transport and now the people in the community are getting to know the school very well.
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Many schools around here provide education in Swahili from class 1 to class 7. Then after that they have to join secondary school in which they are taught in a strange language (English), which can make students fail as it can take a long time to cope with a new language. This language barrier means some children are not able to continue in secondary school. That is the reason we started an English-medium school in which children are equipped well in the English language. I believe that a good school must have a plan to meet the demands of the children and the demands of the world. In the performance statistics of National examination results, English-medium schools are performing very well and the students who come from these schools perform very well at secondary schools, college and at the universities. In November our standard 4 class were the first pupils at Majengo Highland school to sit a national examination and they achieved excellent results.
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