Great.com – Interview with Joshua Omweno Highlights Community Collaboration
October 19, 2023
Great.com interviewed Joshua Omweno, CFK Africa Project Officer for Education, as part of their ‘Great.com Talks With…’ podcast.
Great.com interviewed Joshua Omweno, CFK Africa Project Officer for Education, as part of their ‘Great.com Talks With…’ podcast.
As students were sitting for their Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education examinations at the end of 2022, Esther Askoye, student at the neighboring Olympic High School in Kibera, delivered a healthy baby girl at CFK Africa Tabitha Maternity Home. Hours later, she took her national Agriculture examination in the same clinic.
“The three-day training for more than 36 teachers was aimed at equipping them with the necessary skills on how to better support children with disabilities.”
CFK Africa’s Funzo project improves health, wellness and educational outcomes for teenage mothers in Kenyan informal settlements.
“My message to other teens out there is to come out and look at the challenges our community is facing, and to try to address them in small ways.”
“CFK Africa is working to improve [school] attendance via a variety of methods, and this LEAP project (in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was designed to provide guidance on how to implement, measure, and eventually scale specific interventions to improve school attendance in informal settlements in Kenya.”
“During these four years of schooling, the scholarship not only covered my school fees, but also provided a range of additional activities that shaped my personal growth such as participation in community service, holiday study camps, learning excursions, and mentorship sessions.”
A report from MIT researchers rigorously analyzes an ongoing data collection effort by CFK Africa to study which interventions have the best effect on boosting the rate of primary school graduation among students in informal settlements like Kibera in Nairobi.
CFK Africa’s Interim Director of Strategic Initiatives, Jeffrey Okoro, spoke with VOA News about CFK Africa’s partnership with MIT to improve educational outcomes among students living in Kenya’s informal settlements.
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