Education Project: Improving Social Welfare for Underprivileged Families and Children
This project, implemented from November 2019 to December 2022 under Holt Children Services Sponsorship, aimed to reduce school dropout rates by enhancing the quality of education at Keko Mwanga Pre/Primary School. Its main objectives were to improve the learning environment, educational quality, and parenting support.
Key Activities: provision of health insurance and general health checkups, after-school classes and extracurricular activities (sports, life skills, health education, and talent development), distribution of learning materials (shoes, textbooks, stationery), school feeding programs, emotional support activities (picnics, birthdays, and awards), sports equipment and training, sponsorship programs including individual gifts, treatment support, and meal assistance for families with health challenges, parental education and stakeholder engagement, emergency support such as food and medication for poor families. Achievement are: reduced school absenteeism from 13% to 1%, 10% increase in students passing average marks, 8% decrease in failure rates.
Challenges includes; insufficient funding relative to community needs, COVID-19 pandemic affecting project activities and design, community skepticism and lack of awareness about the project. Collaboration with government stakeholders and donors facilitated project adaptation and continuation despite challenges