Dagoretti Corner Primary School

Nairobi:

Capital of Kenya!

Here you can find a school named Dagoretti Corner Primary School. It is situated in one of the slum areas of Nairobi. Dagoretti Primary School is a complete comprehensive school with forms one up to eight, as well as a nursery school this school was established in 1989 by the Baptist church of the area and pastor Simon Onyango. The area around the school is very poor with great unemployment, criminality, drug abuse and it is also susceptible to diseases.

From the beginning

there were 90 children. Christine Atsulu and Julius Magware were the first teachers. Today there are around 400 pupils. The school is run entirely with money that comes from Sweden. Many of the pupils are orphans. The children of the Dagoretti Corner area have a long way to other schools. That's why they choose to come to this school. There is a fee of 500 Ksh ( = 50 SEK ) per three months. This fee is, however, controversial. The government schools are free today since a short time back. Our school has decided that families that have possibility to pay the fee, do so. The poorest don't have to pay. We Swedes might find this arrangement unfair but you must remember that we don't look upon things in the same way as Kenyans do.
There are 16 teachers working at Dagoretti School. Their salaries are not high: between 500 and 700 SEK per month. Each teacher has between 35 and 60 pupils in the classroom. It's depending on the number of children in school at the time being. People move in and out from the Dagoretti area all the time and they think other schools are too far away. Everybody walks to school and some has as far as a 4 kilometers one-way walk There is no money for school buses and nobody owns a bike.

As Dagoretti Corner School doesn't get any government subsidy it is entirely dependent on private donors and contributors Through the bankacccount SPONSORSHIP KENYA we send the collected money to Dagoretti Corner Primary School via Swedish School in Nairobi.
Berit Nilsson in Myrviken : telephone number 0643 -10421
and
Birgitta Hellström in Norsborg Stockholm: telephone number 08 - 53185560
would be happy to answer your questions about the school.

Do you wish to help Us to help the children of Dagoretti Corner to a Good schooling?
Every single crown on Sponsorship Kenya
Bg 5871 - 1052
Goes to the running of our school.

School is important

To be able to read, write and count and to have basic knowledge of history and about the world around us is of vital importance for every single person.. It is an imperative necessity for the democratic growth of a country. Education is the most important tool when it comes to meeting future challenges. Only by existing Dagoretti School prevents many problems, such as criminality, drug abuse and teenage pregnancies. The school wishes to train and educate boys and girls and give them the same chances to a good life.

Since 1991 there is a cultural exchange between Dagoretti Corner Primary School and Sweden. It started in Jämtland and has spread to other parts of Sweden. Children and teachers in Nairobi and in Sweden write to each other. Dagoretti School welcomes Swedish visitors who also can visit teachers home and even other homes in the Dagoretti area. Thanks to Studieförbundet Vuxenskolan Kenyan teachers has got possibilities to visit Sweden which has been very useful and interesting for the visitors as well as for their hosts. .

Thanks to the Friendship School Project it has been possible to enlarge the school buildings and now each form has its own classroom. This project is an example of solidarity on a grassrootlevel. Knowledge reduces prejudice and increases commitment in matters of justice.

The money collected in Sweden goes to the teacher's salaries. But money is also needed not only for schoolmateriels such as desks, books and paper but also for the administration of the school and for the maintenance of the school buildings.

New pictures!!

From Simon Onyango, 20061202

This is a picture of Samuel Mbuthia with classmates. He is Partially blind but knows that schooling is the only tool he can cling onto to shape his life for future participation in nation development.

October 2006

Jubilation on arrival of a bag with some gifts.

November 2006

Sports Team

November 2006

Sports Team with no boots

Below you find photos from Nairobi and Östen Holmqvist´s trip to Tororo in Uganda.

You find a lot of people walking or on bicycle on the roads	Most of this people are on the way to the market
As you see the roads are very bad	Almost better with no asphalt.
In the country	There is only path's to the houses.
Approximately one minute after this photo the police try to stop this vehicle. The driver ignore that ant try to escape.Without success. Notice that one of the passenger have part of his legs outside. Here we drive at 90km/h	Here we only drive 70km/h.One of the passenger noticed that i take photos and try to stop me.Wondering why i take photos of them. I pretender not to understand and wave back.
Market with loud music to entice customer.	Its imported to be first by the bus so you have the best chance to sell something.
Shisende in Kakamega area.	Christine, James and Simon
This photo is from Tororo,Uganda,(Simons native village) In behind you, you can see smoke, There they burn bricks to built houses with.	Bricks that's among other things be used to built Simons house for exampel. Around 1 cent per brick will the price be.
No electricity off course.They just use a paraffin lamp.	The village have get a new water pump.
Here they grind Kasava root what they make Ugali from.	After they have grinded, they have to sift the Kasava root.
Some morning tired kids that want to see that strange Mzungu (European person) for the last time before he leaves.	James Grandfather.
In the mud hut. From the left: James mother, Christine, me and James grandfather	James, his two sisters and there kids
Here we go to visit James parents and siblings in the slum.	It rained a few days ago but still its slippery.
Tight and dirty.But the kids play in the area.	Notice that down to the right flow dirty water.
That little shed made of sheet metal you can see to the left, works as a shower room. They take a bucket of water and pour over them selfs.	Here are the kids play area.Its also the way they go to Dagoretti Corner Primary School
All follow the same track...	Here you most have some sense of balance Its the ONLY way in and out from this slum area.


This is how they bring the water.	Here is James mother. Selling vegetable that other shops have thrown away.
Meeting in Dagoretti church.	Some friends to James want me to take a photo together with them.