In 2017 and early 2018 Watu kwa Watu has, for the first time, collaborated with volunteers professionals. The volunteers were 4 women architects, all associated with the UN-HABITAT: one from Surinam/Netherlands, one from Brasil and two from Spain. They were assisting by making preliminary architectural designs for improving and rebuilding Starkid School and Rescue Centre […]
171210 Rebuilding Starkid’s Toilets and Showers
When in November 2017 the cement slab over the Starkid latrines has colapsed, it became a real hygiene emergency for 170 pupils of Starkid School, and even worse for 70 among them who are borders at the Rescue Centre (orphanage). Emergency funding came mainly from Watu Kwa Watu friends in Poland – from a group […]
Overseers Education Centre Expands its feeding program
Overseers Education Centre in Kangemi Slum in Nairobi continues being assisted in its feeding program funded by the ACH (African Children’s Haven of Galveston, Texas, and implemented by Watu Kwa Watu and Karuna Trust. Having started with breakfast of uji (maize porridge) on every school day, it has been expanded adding a modest lunch two […]
DRAW YOUR DREAMS project at St Judah Education Centre in Mathare Slum in Nairobi
Watu Kwa Watu was invited in early 2017, via African Children’s Haven Foundation, to partner with the Art Fund of an American painter Dinesh Doshi to start the project DRAW YOUR DREAMS, in a few poor primary schools, both in urban slums and in rural areas in Kenya. The project introduces the elements of visual […]
DRAW YOUR DREAMS project at Overseers Education Centre school
Watu Kwa Watu was invited in early 2017, via African Children’s Haven Foundation, to partner with the Art Fund of an American painter Dinesh Doshi to start the project DRAW YOUR DREAMS, in a few poor primary schools, both in urban slums and in rural areas in Kenya. The project introduces the elements of visual […]