On the fist and second days of open mapping schools updates, we concentrated on Raila and Kianda villages of Kibera.
In Raila village, the enumerators visited Wells of life school, Tumaini Centre, West hills, Cromi Academy, St Christine, St Stephen and Maono School
Cromi Academy gave us the information we needed from them, but they also pointed out that they are about to shift the school because they had already bought piece of land somewhere else.
Hope academy, a school run by Tumaini ministries, changed the name of the school to Tumaini Hope Centre, which now runs Pre-primary, Primary and Junior secondary school. The school closed down the secondary school section in order to run Junior secondary school effectively, and also cut down the high cost of running both Junior secondary and secondary school.
West hill community is a new school that has started from scratch, and now operates classes from baby class to Junior secondary school. They have not featured in any of Map Kibera’s previous mapping and it was the first time the school was being mapped.
St Christine school, which had both Primary and secondary school sections in our previous school mapping, says they closed down the secondary school section due to high cost of running the school. The director shared with Map Kibera’s enumerators how he plans to shut down the school completely to concentrate on a different income generating activity.
Hoywik primary and secondary school was closed down after the school caught fire, what is left is a small part of primary school that goes up to grade three.
Tabasamu Imani centre is a new school in Raila village that was mapped afresh.
In Kianda village, among the schools we visited include Joy springs and Jitahidi school, both of which said they have school main centres elsewhere and if they were to give information, we should visit the main centres. Jitahidi’s main centre, according to the teacher we met, is still located in Kibera but in a different village.
New Langata School, located in Kianda village is said to have been shut down and our team could not reach anyone to confirm it.
St Collins Nursery School was untraceable and so it was not clear if they had shut down or just moved to a new location.
Young Achievers School has relocated to Ayany village from the Kianda area they were originally mapped.
The enumerators also visited Mary Mother of Hope Educational Centre which is operational and still at the same location they had been mapped from.
Goodson Child Care and St Andrews ACK School could not be traced from the locations shown on the map. We asked around and no one knew about any of them, as it seems like they had shut down for one reason or another. We retreaved phone number for St Andrews ACK School head teacher but the call went unanswered.
Blessed Divine Mercy pre-school
head teacher Elizabeth
hired the church premise
(New-school)
Location kianda
Status:Operating
- Trinity Kibra Educational Centre
- Blessed Hope Child Care centre
change name to Shemelsa Schools
Status: operating
Location:neighboring Soweto West - St Collins Nursery School
status:not operating - Hope and Shine Kibera Center
new construction
Location: Kianda
Status:Operating - St George Orthodox School
Location: Kianda
a classroom yet to be completed (construction)
Status: operating - Word Bible children’s school
Location: Kianda
Status: Not operating - Rem Outreach Community Center
