Since the beginning of Covid-19 pandemics, nearly a year ago, the schools were closed and the feeding program has been changed to serve the neediest families, most of which have lost their main sources of income, as described in the previous postings. Instead of meals prepared at schools for students, schools started to distribute the […]
Covid-19 results in drastically reduced incomes of slum families depending on day-laborer and other informal jobs. For many no money for food. Also, the teachers in the community-based schools receive no salaries. This necessitates expending the feeding programs in the schools, we collaborate with, to include as much as possible the families of the children, […]
The current pandemic has resulted in unexpected challenges for the Watu Kwa Watu Charitable Trust. With all schools closed, the children and young people, whom we are assisting with their education costs, many of who normally stay in the school dormitories, needed to leave and “go home”. This meant, of course, additional travel costs, often […]
Starkid School and Rescue Center is the school and orphanage, with which Watu Kwa Watu is collaborating particularly closely, assisting it in a variety of ways. Also, among children and youth supported by sponsors through Watu Ka Watu, Starkid students, and graduates, represent the largest group. They have been, and are, supported by friends of […]
Watu Kwa Watu is already for several years collaborating with the Fr. Tillen High-school in Mbita, supporting study costs of several very poor students, mainly orphans, and assisting with their further education towards possible income-earning professions of their choice. To not overload the webpage, the following are few photos of some of our young friends, […]
Pinto and Bernard are both orphans. They are able to study thanks to the support of the German friends of Watu Kwa Watu. They are both very successful in their studies. Pinto is studying Architecture and Urban Planning, while Benard is studying Accountancy. Photos from the visit in November 2019: University entrance area, Pinto (on […]
Charity (name changed to protect privacy) is studying, with support from German friends of Watu Kwa Watu, towards Bachelor in Education Degree specializing in English Literature. She wants to become an English Literature teacher at a High-school level.
Rosy (name changed to protect privacy), has become an orphan only recently, end of 2019, when her mother, a single mother, was killed in a road accident. The mother was a school teacher, and a real angel, accommodating at her home, and supporting, besides her own children, also a couple of her orphan students. The […]
Eunice is finishing Diploma studies in Health Record Management at Kenya Medical Training College in Health Record Management. Her education has been funded by a German friend of Watu Kwa Watu. Eunice at College grounds with her sponsor and Watu Kwa Watu Vice-chair during sponsor’s visit in late 2018
Phanice is in the last year of her studies of catering at Kisi Technical College. Below is her photo with her German sponsor, who has visited beneficiaries of her grants in late 2018, and with the Watu Kwa Watu Vice-chair. Here photos on the campus November 2019
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