The Overseers Education Centre (school) is located at the edge of the Kangemi slum, just at the border with Kawangware slum. It has about 150 children. Half of them go to kindergarten, the rest to the Primary. They have 10 teachers. Each gets about 3000 Ksh a month. The school fees are 200 Ksh a month per child but many do not pay. There is no feeding program.
The Pentacostal Church lets the school use their piece of land but the pupils are of various Christian denominations.
The school has a permit to operate from the Nairobi City Council.
The Centre cannot be formally registered as a school with the Ministry of Education because for that they would need at least to P1 teachers and the minimum wage for a P1 teacher is 9000 Ksh per month.
They have now in grade 8 five candidates who will sit in November for their KCPE exams (end of Primary School). For their exam they can go to an exam center in Kawngware slum nearby.
Assisting with the costs of a minimal feeding program would be the top priority.
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- The entrance from the street
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- Open sewage along the fence of the plot.
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- Watu Chair and Vice-Chair with Evelyn the Kindergarten Head Teacher and Deputy Head Teacher of Overseers. Behind is the Pentacostal Church, the owner of the plot.
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- Watu Chair and Vice-Chair with Evelyn the Kindergarten Head Teacher and Deputy Head Teacher of Overseers.
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- One of the five religious services taking, simultaneously, place on the plot every Sunday.
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- One of the five religious services taking, simultaneously, place on the plot every Sunday.
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- Dan, the Head Teacher and Evelyn, Deputy Head Teacher.
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- Behind is the Pentacostal Church, the owner of the plot.
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- Sukuma wyki, spinach-like vegetable on the plot.
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- Sukuma wyki, spinach-like vegetable on the plot, with the Deputy Head Teacher and Watu Deputy Chair behind.
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- Head Teacher and Watu Deputy Chair at the Overseers entrance from the street.