Today was all about getting to know the other CIFEFA-schools. We walked around Kawangware (neighbourig slum) the whole day and visited 6 different slum-schools. We shaked many hands, learned many names, saw many faces. We had cold soda, hot milk-tea, local vegetables and the worlds best bananas.
The schools are all in different stages of developement, one could describe the typical growth in the following steps:
-start with a nursery taking care of little children
-the children grow too old and parents demand further education
-more space needed, they rent a hall (mostly of a slum church)
-maybe tables, portable deviding walls or toilets are added
-having classes only devided by portable walls becomes unbearable
-they gain recognition from outside, which brings funds
-they rent or aquire another lot and build metal sheeted classrooms
-there are different projects started (brick houses, external income, teachers accomodations, …)
This process takes place over 20, 25 years. We are yet to see what’s next!
After an awesome lunch at Skylife School went went back to KYC, where the male part of our team had a match of football, while Muriel did an drawing of the schoolground:
Kangemi Youth Centre Architecture 