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Bang’a Primary School is the beacon of hope for many young minds in the poor Kinango region of Kwale. The school provides fantastic education for children in an area where educated people are strongly outnumbered. The school is growing rapidly but is very outdated. One of the highest priorities is the construction of a new administration building to be able to  manage the school effectively.

Annette’s Women Group is a local entrepreneurial organization founded by women from the Bang’a area. The organization is committed to strengthening the community. They do this by helping the businesses of local entrepreneurs to get started with microcredit.

The Bang’a Primary School is the largest primary school in the Bang’a area. More than 500 children go to school every day to enjoy education. The school is outdated, the groups are too large and many lessons cannot take place when it rains outside. Saidia Kwale Foundation is committed to the construction of three new classrooms. This would also bring the number of children below the Kenyan maximum of 50 children per classroom.

In Bang’a and Kasemeni, various (women’s) groups are engaged in microcredit, locally called table-banking. By helping each other in a group with loans, participants can start small businesses, or expand existing businesses. In doing so, they strengthen their income position and increase their self-reliance. A cautious start has been made with this in 2021. Saidia Kwale Foundation wants to increase the chances of success of these initiatives, with a small financial contribution per participant.

Kasemeni has long been plagued by prolonged drought. Dependence on the rainy season is great. In order to reduce this dependence, the community has given high priority to the construction of a large basin. During the rainy season, it can fill with water that can be used to bridge the dry period until the next rainy season.

In a discussion with the people of Kasemeni possibilities for economic activity, the idea arose to start a small-scale pea project. One of the inhabitants has made land available. However, there was a lack of means to buy seeds. The foundation has therefore made a first financial contribution to buy seeds and fertilizer. A group of five inhabitants started working on this. Later this year we will see how things are going and whether additional help is needed.

With small donations for the purchase of chicks, feed and medicine, we enable the poorest families in Bang’a to keep chickens on a small scale. And thereby generate food and a small income for themselves. The plan for a small-scale chicken farm came from the community itself and started small.  In the meantime, the project has expanded to three family groups.

In Kasemeni and surroundings there were no medical facilities. The nearest care post was a day’s walk away. Partly because of this, in recent years people died due to problems with childbirth, typhoid and malaria and snake bites. Deaths that could have been prevented with (simple) medical help.

Fortunately, in the summer of 2022, we were able to largely fulfill the biggest wish of the local community – the establishment of a local care post. A separate delivery room is still on our wish list. Read more about what has been achieved so far and what we still want to achieve.

Often lunch at school is the only serious meal children get in a day. It is therefore all the more important that this school meal is healthy and available to all children. It is an important foundation for growing up healthy and being able to learn. However,  currently the kitchen facilities at the school in Kasemeni are severely substandard. We are committed to building a new school kitchen in Kasemeni. Read here to find out how you can support the school.

The Kenyan Ministry of Education maintains a target standard of 50 students per class. In Kasemeni, however, this average is much higher. Students have to share their desks and school materials with as many as three classmates. The Saidia Kwale Foundation is committed to the construction of three new classrooms in Kasemeni.

As known, climate change has a major impact on parts of Africa and thus also on the Kwale region. The rainy season in Kwale is becoming less predictable and seems to be getting shorter. The long periods of drought have immense consequences for humans and animals. Families are forced to spend most of their time finding water, livestock are dying and the already scarce agriculture has hardly got off the ground in the past year.

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