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AMURTEL is sponsoring 6 slum-area kindergardens and primary schools in Nairobi. There are about 600 students enrolled. About 25% of these students cannot afford their school fees. Their jobless or underemployed parents or guardians must choose between food and education, and so they drop out. Many of them are AIDS orphans. We also provide a porridge breakfast at the
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The slums of Nairobi are reservoirs of crime, disease and hopelessness. People are forced to live in inhuman conditions. Families of 4 to 10 people live in a single 3x4 room with no toilet or bathroom, kitchen, no water and a very faint possibility of a better future. A whole generation of children, Africa's future, are growing up uneducated.
New Castle, South Africa
In a underdeveloped area rural called "Buffalo Flats", AMURTEL has 6 kindergartens and primary schools. Despite the low tuitions of these schools, many of the parents or guardians can't afford to keep their children in school. Here, too, we provide breakfast to the students.
John Mwangi, 10I am ten years old and I finished Std 1 (1st grade). My father died two years ago. I like to study numbers, but Mama has no job so I can't go to school this year. I live with my Mama and my two little brothers. Mama is sick, so I help her to find food for us.
kangemi school, nairobi
uthiru school, nairobi
When I was young I liked crying so much. My mother was not having any money. I was like that. People passing on the road would see me. They asked, "That crying child belongs to who?"
I grew up and I was going to school. Every day I was sent home from school to get the school fees. Our family was not helping my mother at all, my mother is very sick. So, I have a short story for you.
buffalo flats school, south africa
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