My original plan was to have children in school by January 2008 but this did not materialize because of the December 2007 post-election violence in Kenya that affected many people and places. Since our first grade (class one ) children we had hoped to enroll had to walk daily from home to school, parents were anxious about letting their small children walk to school while there was still so much unrest.
These developments led the parents of children who we had recruited to enroll in established schools. The number of children who still wanted to come to our school was too small to conduct school that year as required by the education law in Kenya. For these reasons, my plans changed and called for the school to begin recruiting children in late 2008 to begin in January 2009.
This new plan gave me enough time to prepare for boarding facilities and projected to recruiting for the third, fourth and fifth grades in the first intake.
I aimed at having about 120 children in school January 2009; I succeeded in enrolling 115 children.
Boarding facilities was possible because as we approached the end of 2008, construction of 8 classrooms was completed and I planned to utilize them as follows for starting the School in January 2009:
a. Three classrooms were used as instruction rooms for classes 3, 4, and 5
b. Two classrooms were temporarily used as dormitories: one for boys and one for girls
c. One classroom was partitioned for use as administration offices and staff room
d. A temporary kitchen and wash rooms were erected outside the main building. I had experience of using class rooms in this way in 1987 when I started a Diocesan boys’ Boarding High School with 6 classrooms as the only available building to start the school with.
What was your original plan to intake students?
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