<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" > <channel> <title>Juliet Otieno | Eneza Education</title> <atom:link href="https://www.enezaeducation.com/tag/julieinspire/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://www.enezaeducation.com</link> <description>Spreading Education Everywhere</description> <lastBuildDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2019 14:38:57 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.5</generator> <image> <url>https://www.enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/cropped-03_KP_icon-32x32.jpg</url> <title>Juliet Otieno | Eneza Education</title> <link>https://www.enezaeducation.com</link> <width>32</width> <height>32</height> </image> <item> <title>St. Michaels School – Eastern Region Winner of Chemsha Bongo Na Shupavu291 Competition</title> <link>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/12/11/st-michaels-school-eastern-region-winner-of-chemsha-bongo-na-shupavu291-competition/</link> <comments>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/12/11/st-michaels-school-eastern-region-winner-of-chemsha-bongo-na-shupavu291-competition/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Juliet]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2019 14:38:57 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Eneza Media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chemsha Bongo Na Shupavu291]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joseph Nguli]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Juliet Otieno]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Shupavu291]]></category> <category><![CDATA[St. Michael's Boarding primary school]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Winners]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://enezaeducation.com/?p=11087</guid> <description><![CDATA[Stella-Maris Wayua Nguli is a proud mother. Her son Joseph Nguli, was the top student from St. Michael’s Boarding primary school in Kitui County, in the Chemsha Bongo Na Shupavu291 ... <a href="https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/12/11/st-michaels-school-eastern-region-winner-of-chemsha-bongo-na-shupavu291-competition/" class="more-link">Read More</a>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_11088" style="width: 464px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Nicholas-Okwako-Joseph-Nguli-Stellamaris-e1576073914598.jpeg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11088" class=" wp-image-11088" src="https://enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Nicholas-Okwako-Joseph-Nguli-Stellamaris-300x225.jpeg" alt="Nicholas-Okwako-Joseph-Nguli-Stellamaris." width="454" height="341" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11088" class="wp-caption-text">Headteacher- Nicholas Okwako, Joseph Nguli & Stella-Maris</p></div> <p>Stella-Maris Wayua Nguli is a proud mother. Her son Joseph Nguli, was the top student from St. Michael’s Boarding primary school in Kitui County, in the Chemsha Bongo Na Shupavu291 competition. Kitui County is on the Eastern region of Kenya.</p> <p>Joseph’s mother is a mini-shop owner in Mwingi town. She found out about Shupavu291 through a text message four years ago. She then subscribed to see the learning content offered on the platform. Stella-Maris then introduced Fanuel Mulungi, Joseph’s brother, to Shupavu291 to supplement his schoolwork when he was in class six.</p> <div id="attachment_11089" style="width: 330px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Joseph-Nguli.jpeg"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11089" class=" wp-image-11089" src="https://enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Joseph-Nguli-300x281.jpeg" alt="Joseph Nguli" width="320" height="300" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11089" class="wp-caption-text">Joseph Nguli</p></div> <p>Joseph Nguli, who is in class 6, started using Shupavu291 in class 5, after seeing his elder brother, Fanuel excelling in his studies. The brothers took turns studying on their mother’s feature phone. Though Joseph was already a bright pupil, scoring between 395- 410 marks, Shupavu291 helped him to revise and comprehend better. His mother says that Joseph has exhibited a notable improvement in Mathematics. He scored 92% in Mathematics for his third term exams. It was an improvement from 80% previously. He scored a total of 436 marks in his end of year exams.</p> <p>Fanuel now in Form 1, won school fees twice in previous Shupavu291 school fees competitions when he was at Muthale Primary School. He scored 336 in his KCPE and proceeded to Mwingi Boys High School, a public boarding school, in Mwingi North Constituency, Kitui County. Some of the subjects that Fanuel excelled in thanks to Shupavu291 are Computer studies and Physics.</p> <div id="attachment_11090" style="width: 384px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Students-at-St.-Michaels-school-scaled-e1576074223151.jpg"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11090" class=" wp-image-11090" src="https://enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Students-at-St.-Michaels-school-300x169.jpg" alt="Students at St. Michael's school" width="374" height="211" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11090" class="wp-caption-text">Students at St. Michael’s school</p></div> <p>Mr Nicholas Okwako, Joseph’s Head Teacher, was elated while announcing their victory to the students who were in school during our visit. He said that Joseph Nguli was the reason their school had emerged the best in Eastern province. The top schools in all the eight regions of the country won a cash prize of KES 100,000, while the top five students per region, won KES 10,000 each.</p> <p>Joseph scored a total of 112,980 points in the Chemsha Bongo Na Shupavu291 competition. His mother says that sometimes she had to force him to go to sleep while studying late into the night on Shupavu291. Joseph was a day scholar during the competition and is becoming a boarder next year since he is advancing to class seven. According to Mr Okwako, all the class seven and eight students in the school have to board. The school is an ICT integrated centre of academic excellence in the region, sponsored by the catholic church.</p> <p>As I finish my interview with Stella-Maris, she tells me that she will use the prize money to buy Joseph a phone, so that he can study more on Shupavu291.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/12/11/st-michaels-school-eastern-region-winner-of-chemsha-bongo-na-shupavu291-competition/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>Literacy Day 2019: Literacy and Multilingualism</title> <link>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/09/09/literacy-day-2019-literacy-and-multilingualism/</link> <comments>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/09/09/literacy-day-2019-literacy-and-multilingualism/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Juliet]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2019 07:44:08 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Education in Kenya]]></category> <category><![CDATA[education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Inclusive Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Juliet Otieno]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literacy Day]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mobile Learning]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Multilingualism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Shupavu291]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://enezaeducation.com/?p=11027</guid> <description><![CDATA[International Literacy Day was celebrated on September 8, 2019. This year’s theme was Literacy and Multilingualism. Eneza is a digital learning platform targeting a majority of the underserved market because ... <a href="https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/09/09/literacy-day-2019-literacy-and-multilingualism/" class="more-link">Read More</a>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">International Literacy Day was celebrated on September 8, 2019. This year’s theme was </span><b>Literacy and Multilingualism.</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Eneza is a digital learning platform targeting a majority of the underserved market because of its unique USSD/SMS technology. With 70% of our learners being rural residents, we encounter language barriers among our learners. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is both a challenge and an opportunity, depending on the perspective you view it from. We learn from our daily challenges, so as to focus on the opportunities they present. The opportunity lies in the fact that our technology acts as an opportunity to learn new languages such as English and Swahili. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our work with nonprofits and foundations that </span><a href="https://enezaeducation.com/xavier-project-partnership-for-refugees-education/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">sponsor refugee</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> learners is an example. Our technology acts as an easy introduction to a new language while providing supplementary access to quality educational material. Most of the sponsored learners on our learning platform Shupavu291, are refugees of Somali and South Sudanese origins. English therefore, is not a language of instruction for learners in their countries of origin. In Somalia for instance, the main languages used are is Arabic and Somali. Shupavu291 enhances their acquisition of English and Swahili languages, as well as raising their literacy levels. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We also encounter the issue of language barriers in our interactions with customers daily. Our customer care team sometimes has to address parents in their local languages.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For a long time in Kenya, there has been a debate to change the language of instruction in rural areas </span><a href="http://www.eajournals.org/wp-content/uploads/Language-of-Instruction-in-Kenya-Focus-On-Lower-Primary-in-Schools-in-Rural-Areas.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">to local languages</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. It has however not been implemented in policy, with many schools </span><a href="https://www.nation.co.ke/oped/opinion/Encourage-use-of-mother-tongue-in-schools/440808-5232914-o4fejlz/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">still punishing children</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> who use their mother tongue to communicate in schools. This is set to change with the new competency-based curriculum (CBC), which will </span><a href="https://www.nation.co.ke/oped/opinion/Make-mother-tongue-fulcrum-of-CBC/440808-5127130-jw21tgz/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">explore the use of mother tongue </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">as a language of instruction in lower primary school.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meanwhile, learners report that Shupavu291 has been instrumental in improving their language learning. An example is </span><a href="https://enezaeducation.com/marcus-njeru-63-with-shupavu291-its-never-too-late-to-learn-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">63-year-old Marclus Njeru</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, who was looking for good literacy content to improve his command of the English language and to enhance his education. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">He takes more than 20 lessons per day on the Shupavu291 in English and Swahili, to help him in reading his bible. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shupavu291 enables learners like Marclus to gain this knowledge with simplified lessons that are easy to understand. Shupavu291 SMS learning platform is also easily accessible, by dialing a USSD code, *291# on any Safaricom phone. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO’s Director-General’s remarks on</span><a href="https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/literacyday" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">International Literacy Day</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, “</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our world is rich and diverse with about 7,000 living languages. These languages are instruments for communication, engagement in lifelong learning, and participation in society and the world of work”.</span></i></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/09/09/literacy-day-2019-literacy-and-multilingualism/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>Charity Kahuria: Intern Profile</title> <link>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/09/01/charity-kahuria-intern-profile/</link> <comments>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/09/01/charity-kahuria-intern-profile/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Juliet]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2019 16:35:36 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Eneza Media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Akirachix]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Charity Kahiria]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Intern Profile]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Juliet Otieno]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://enezaeducation.com/?p=10953</guid> <description><![CDATA[Charity Wanjiru Kahuria, our Software development Intern, has been with us for the past one month. She is a student at Akirachix, specializing in Android back-end development. When not coding, ... <a href="https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/09/01/charity-kahuria-intern-profile/" class="more-link">Read More</a>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/charitykahuria/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Charity Wanjiru Kahuria,</span></a> our Software development Intern, has been with us for the past one month. She is a student at <a href="http://akirachix.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Akirachix</a>, specializing in Android back-end development. <span style="font-weight: 400;">When not coding, she enjoys reading and solving puzzles. </span></p> <p>As her internship comes to an end, I sought to find out a bit about her experience at Eneza Education.</p> <p><strong>Why did you choose Eneza Education for your internship?</strong></p> <p>Charity: Eneza Education is changing lives and making education accessible to students from low socioeconomic backgrounds. I wanted to experience that first hand and be part of the core team involved in making the tech that is revolutionizing education in Africa.</p> <p><strong>What are some highlights about the skills have you learned? </strong></p> <p>Charity: During my time at Eneza Education I have learned how tech companies work, the day to day of a Software Developer. I have also learned that sometimes you don’t get it the first time hence I have learned to ask and be a little patient with myself.</p> <p><strong>What is your best memory working with the team?</strong></p> <p>Charity: My best memory would be during the pitching sessions where I got to learn new things about the company, business, and the team. I also did a presentation I remember everybody being so attentive, the company culture at Eneza is really good and adaptable.</p> <p><strong>Where do you see yourself in 5 years?</strong></p> <p>Charity: In the next five years, I see myself as a senior developer at a successful tech company or owning a startup.</p> <p><strong>What is your advice to others who are looking for an internship at tech startups?</strong></p> <p>Charity: First, know the company you want to work in, follow their social media so as to know all the updates.</p> <p>second, be ready to get your hands dirty, basically, be prepared to write code you’ve never written before.</p> <p><strong>We wish Charity all the best in her education and career.</strong></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/09/01/charity-kahuria-intern-profile/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>Xavier Project Partnership for Refugees’ Education</title> <link>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/08/01/xavier-project-partnership-for-refugees-education/</link> <comments>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/08/01/xavier-project-partnership-for-refugees-education/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Juliet]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2019 10:57:25 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Partnerships]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Juliet Otieno]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Refugee Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Xavier Project]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://enezaeducation.com/?p=10850</guid> <description><![CDATA[Xavier Project is a Non-Governmental Organization that runs education programs for refugees in Kenya. They were among our pioneer partners who sponsored refugee students on our platform between 2016 and ... <a href="https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/08/01/xavier-project-partnership-for-refugees-education/" class="more-link">Read More</a>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://enezaeducation.com/refugees-right-to-quality-education-join-enezachat-24th-june/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Xavier Project</a> is a Non-Governmental Organization that runs education programs for refugees in Kenya. They were among our pioneer partners who<a href="https://enezaeducation.com/refugees-right-to-quality-education-join-enezachat-24th-june/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> sponsored refugee students</a> on our platform between 2016 and 2017.</p> <p>A 2015 internal rapid <a href="https://www.the-star.co.ke/sasa/2016-01-06-transforming-the-lives-of-refugees-through-education/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">assessment survey by Xavier Project</a> indicated that 34% of refugee students were out of school due to various challenges. In 2016, Xavier Project gave mobile phones to two schools in Turkana County, to allow increased access to Shupavu291 SMS mobile learning in school.</p> <p>The partnership piloted in 2016 with 2250 refugees, had impressive results. Students in this pilot cohort performed better on average than the other refugee primary school students. In Dadaab, students who did more than two quizzes per day on Shupavu291, <a href="http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/ED/pdf/mlw2017_Tuesday_am_track3_E_Description.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">improved their </a>grades by 36% during the year. These students completed <a href="http://www.urban-refugees.org/mobile-education-refugee-children/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">45,000 quizzes in 2015,</a> averaging 112 quizzes per student.</p> <p>The top students in Kakuma and Daadab refugee camps were using Shupavu291, our SMS learning platform. These top two students were later awarded full scholarships for secondary school by Xavier Project.</p> <p>In 2017, they scaled the project to reach 10,000 refugee students with mobile learning. Teachers also benefited from our teacher refresher course, helping them to improve their work in the classrooms. Shupavu291 motivated students to learn. It also attracted refugee students who were out of school to enroll in schools.</p> <p>Shupavu291 learning platform provides bite sized lessons and assessments on any mobile phone with a Safaricom sim card. Learning content on Shupavu291 is easily accessible because it is delivered through SMS, and does not require an internet connection. Students are also able to chat with our teachers through the Ask-A-Teacher feature, that enables them to ask academic questions and get responses.</p> <p>We have partnered with several NGOs and foundations similar to Xavier Project. We do this to increase access to quality education to under-served students. Read more about our partnerships on <a href="https://enezaeducation.com/#partner" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">this link.</a></p> <p><strong>About the author:</strong></p> <p>Juliet Otieno is the Communications Associate at Eneza Education. She has a journalism and Public Relations background and loves good books. You can read more articles written by this author <a href="https://enezaeducation.com/?s=Juliet+Otieno" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here.</a></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/08/01/xavier-project-partnership-for-refugees-education/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>WUSC and Eneza Education Synergizing toward Universal Education for refugee girls.</title> <link>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/06/20/wusc-and-eneza-education-synergizing-toward-universal-education-for-refugee-girls/</link> <comments>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/06/20/wusc-and-eneza-education-synergizing-toward-universal-education-for-refugee-girls/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Juliet]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2019 11:38:59 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Partnerships]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Juliet Otieno]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Refugee Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Refugees]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World Refugee Day]]></category> <category><![CDATA[WUSC]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://enezaeducation.com/?p=10551</guid> <description><![CDATA[The total refugee population in Kenya as of May 2019, was 676,695 according to UNHCR. Almost half of the refugees in Kenya (44%) reside in Dadaab, 40% in Kakuma and ... <a href="https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/06/20/wusc-and-eneza-education-synergizing-toward-universal-education-for-refugee-girls/" class="more-link">Read More</a>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_10553" style="width: 479px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/IMAG0320.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10553" class="wp-image-10553" src="https://enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/IMAG0320-300x209.jpg" alt="WUSC Beneficiaries" width="469" height="327" srcset="https://www.enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/IMAG0320-300x209.jpg 300w, https://www.enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/IMAG0320-1024x713.jpg 1024w, https://www.enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/IMAG0320-768x535.jpg 768w, https://www.enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/IMAG0320-1536x1070.jpg 1536w, https://www.enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/IMAG0320-2048x1426.jpg 2048w, https://www.enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/IMAG0320-100x70.jpg 100w, https://www.enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/IMAG0320-1200x836.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10553" class="wp-caption-text">WUSC Beneficiaries 1</p></div> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The total refugee population in Kenya as of May 2019, was 676,695 according to </span><a href="https://www.unhcr.org/ke/figures-at-a-glance" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">UNHCR</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Almost half of the refugees in Kenya (44%) reside in Dadaab, 40% in Kakuma and 16% in urban areas (mainly Nairobi), alongside 18,500 stateless persons. Last year in from July to December, we had a pilot program with World University Services Of Canada (WUSC), in Daadab refugee camp targeting 500 girls in class 7, 8 and form 1. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The girls came from </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tawakal secondary, Elnino primary and Bahati primary schools. These schools are located in Dagahaley refugee camp in Dadaab. </span><a href="https://wusc.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">WUSC</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> partnered with Windle Trust International, in charge of Secondary schools in Dadaab as well as the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), in charge of primary schools as implementing partners. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">WUSC sponsored the 500 girls to use our Shupavu291 service and improve on their academic performance. After the six month pilot, the program was rolled out to an even larger population of beneficiaries in Daadab and Kakuma refugee camps. In March and April 2019, Joan Njogu and Peter Baraka from our partnerships team, went to the refugee camps to train remedial teachers and staff from Windle Trust International on using Shupavu291 for their beneficiaries. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We targeted to register a total of 2500 remedial teachers and learners on Shupavu291. Our team observed that women played a major role in advancing girls’ education. “Most beneficiaries were accompanied by their mothers at the remedial learning centers, where the registration took place,” Joan said.</span></p> <div id="attachment_10555" style="width: 487px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/IMAG0335-e1561030375992.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10555" class="wp-image-10555" src="https://enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/IMAG0335-300x209.jpg" alt="WUSC beneficiaries 2" width="477" height="332" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10555" class="wp-caption-text">WUSC beneficiaries 2</p></div> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to a </span><a href="https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/261278e.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">report by UNESCO (2018)</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">– </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">A lifeline to learning: Leveraging technology to support education for refugees, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">about 86 percent of the world’s refugees reside in developing countries. 71 percent of refugee households own a mobile phone. While 39 percent of households have internet-enabled phones, the remaining 61 percent cannot benefit from applications developed for smartphones. The vast majority (93 percent) live in places covered by a 2G mobile network. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Through Shupavu291, we provide bite-sized curriculum content on SMS for primary, secondary school learners, as well as teacher refresher courses, to help in effective delivery of learning outcomes. The advantage of using Shupavu291 is the accessibility aspect. Learners can access content from any phone. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Baraka observed that there was a need for awareness to the parents, on the importance of availing their mobile phones to their children for purposes of learning. “Parents need to be sensitized on the need to provide their phones to learners for successful implementation of digital learning programs”, he said. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Since the majority of the beneficiaries are of Somali origin, English is not their first language of instruction in their country of origin, Shupavu291 helps them learn English faster at their own pace. One remedial teacher said they liked Shupavu291 as a supplementary learning aid because it eases their work as educators by introducing learners to concepts that they end up teaching in class. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To learn more on how to partner with us, </span><a href="https://enezaeducation.com/partners/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">click here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><strong>About the author: </strong></p> <p>Juliet Otieno is the Communications Associate at Eneza Education. She has a journalism and Public Relations background and loves good books. You can read more articles written by this author <a href="https://enezaeducation.com/?s=Juliet+Otieno" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here.</a></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/06/20/wusc-and-eneza-education-synergizing-toward-universal-education-for-refugee-girls/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>Martin Masika, Shupavu291 user academic success story.</title> <link>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/06/14/martin-masika-shupavu291-user-academic-success-story/</link> <comments>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/06/14/martin-masika-shupavu291-user-academic-success-story/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Juliet]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2019 07:44:00 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Testimonials]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Exam Revision]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Juliet Otieno]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Martin Masika]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Shupavu291]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://enezaeducation.com/?p=10432</guid> <description><![CDATA[Martin Masika, a first-year student at Dedan Kimathi University of Technology (DeKUT), owes his academic success to Shupavu291. He achieved grade B+ in his Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) ... <a href="https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/06/14/martin-masika-shupavu291-user-academic-success-story/" class="more-link">Read More</a>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Martin Masika, a first-year student at Dedan Kimathi University of Technology (DeKUT), owes his academic success to Shupavu291. He achieved grade B+ in his Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) in 2018. He was in Kangundo High School, a boys’ boarding school. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Martin is currently pursuing a BSc in Mechanical Engineering and aspires to be a mechanical engineer once he completes his education. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Being a last born of five siblings, he has older siblings to look up to. One of his brothers is a third-year student at Kisii University pursuing a Bachelor of Education in Maths and Physics. They come from a humble background, with challenges of electricity and lack of school fees. Despite these challenges, his older siblings had excelled in their education. Following in his brother’s footsteps, Martin made a resolve to succeed in his academics.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Martin Masika emerged position one among 38 students in his class. He was position four in a stream of 142 students in KCSE. I sought to find out how he used to study using Shupavu291 given that he was in a boarding school. He used to revise on Shupavu291 during the school holidays and over the mid-term break. He would take more than 40 lessons on Shupavu291 whenever he was at home.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He says that Shupavu291 helped him improve his Maths, Chemistry and Physics performance. He also liked the revision content on Geography and History. He achieved grade B plain in form 1 and 2, then his grade improved to B+ in form three and four.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Having started using Shupavu291 while in primary school, he believes that all school going children should take advantage of revising on Shupavu291. He learnt about Shupavu291 from an agent who went to promote it at Matuu Estate Primary school, when he was in class six, in 2015. He found Shupavu291 easy to use since he was learning on a feature phone. He did not have all the textbooks required in school. He scored 338 marks out of a possible 500 and secured a place in Kangundo High school, one of the best performing schools in Machakos County, Eastern Kenya.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Martin Masika has been promoting Shupavu291 for revision to students. He recently went back to Kangundo High school to share the secret behind his success. Shupavu291 featured greatly in his academic success story.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Join in Martin’s success story by dialling *291# from any Safaricom phone and register either as a primary or secondary school student. You can then access unlimited revision notes and assessments for only two shillings daily.</span></p> <p><strong>About the author: </strong></p> <p>Juliet Otieno is the Communications Associate at Eneza Education. She has a journalism and Public Relations background and loves good books. You can read more articles written by this author <a href="https://enezaeducation.com/?s=Juliet+Otieno" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here.</a></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/06/14/martin-masika-shupavu291-user-academic-success-story/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>Meet our new CEO, Wambura Kimunyu</title> <link>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/06/07/meet-our-new-ceo-wambura-kimunyu/</link> <comments>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/06/07/meet-our-new-ceo-wambura-kimunyu/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Juliet]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2019 07:54:35 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Eneza Media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[CEO]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Juliet Otieno]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wambura Kimunyu]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://enezaeducation.com/?p=10599</guid> <description><![CDATA[Wambura Kimunyu, our new CEO joined us in February 2019. With ten years experience in the Pan Africa tech space, she brings the skills needed to take Eneza Education to ... <a href="https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/06/07/meet-our-new-ceo-wambura-kimunyu/" class="more-link">Read More</a>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/wambura-kimunyu-32ab201a/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wambura Kimunyu</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, our new CEO joined us in February 2019. With ten years experience in the Pan Africa tech space, she brings the skills needed to take Eneza Education to the next level. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wambura, who has a degree in education, has worked in publishing, premium mobile services as well as FinTech and has developed a deep understanding of the bottom of the pyramid (BOP) and mass markets both in Kenya and across Africa. She firmly believes that better learning opportunities have the potential to yield better life opportunities for individuals and communities. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Having steered a number of influential tech startups in the African technology ecosystem during their growth phases, her vision is to steer Eneza Education on a sustainable path </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">towards playing a pivotal role in solving one of the most complex problems of our time: access to quality education for all. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We continue to be encouraged in this goal by the feedback we receive from learners on our platform and their parents. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Recently</span><a href="https://enezaeducation.com/rose-akinyi-shupavu291-user-testimonial-customers-as-product-advocates/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> we heard from Rose Akinyi,</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> mother to three girls from Nairobi’s low income Kayole estate. Her daughter Miriam Akoth recently took her national Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations, achieved grade C and consequently joined Kiriri Women’s’ University in April. She credits our service Shupavu291 with helping her improve her performance from grade D to grade C, despite her mother not being able to afford all the required textbooks. All the three girls took turns to study using their mothers basic smartphone. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are also scaling our reach by providing access to quality education for refugee students in Dadaab and Kakuma alongside partners working in those refugee camps. If you have partners doing similar work in your network, please feel free to connect them to us. We would love to collaborate with them in our shared goal of improving access to quality education. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the meantime, follow this link for an </span><a href="https://medium.com/finca-ventures/meet-the-entrepreneur-wambura-kimunyu-eneza-education-b78c76c5b8f5" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">interview of our CEO by one of our partners.</span></a></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/06/07/meet-our-new-ceo-wambura-kimunyu/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>Rose Akinyi Shupavu291 Testimonial: Customers as Product Advocates</title> <link>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/06/06/rose-akinyi-shupavu291-user-testimonial-customers-as-product-advocates/</link> <comments>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/06/06/rose-akinyi-shupavu291-user-testimonial-customers-as-product-advocates/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Juliet]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2019 12:14:08 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Testimonials]]></category> <category><![CDATA[education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Juliet Otieno]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Miriam Akoth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mobilelearning]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rose Akinyi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Shupavu291]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Testimonial]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://enezaeducation.com/?p=10418</guid> <description><![CDATA[Rose Akinyi, a mother to three girls, is grateful to Eneza Education for innovating Shupavu291. Together with her daughters, they live in a single room house in Nairobi’s Kayole estate. ... <a href="https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/06/06/rose-akinyi-shupavu291-user-testimonial-customers-as-product-advocates/" class="more-link">Read More</a>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_10421" style="width: 541px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Juliet-Otieno-Rose-Akinyi-Miriam-Akoth-in-Kayole..jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10421" class=" wp-image-10421" src="https://enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Juliet-Otieno-Rose-Akinyi-Miriam-Akoth-in-Kayole.-300x200.jpg" alt="Juliet Otieno, Rose Akinyi & Miriam Akoth in Kayole." width="531" height="354" data-wp-editing="1" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10421" class="wp-caption-text">Juliet Otieno, Rose Akinyi & Miriam Akoth in Nairobi’s Kayole estate.</p></div> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rose Akinyi, a mother to three girls, is grateful to Eneza Education for innovating Shupavu291. Together with her daughters, they live in a single room house in Nairobi’s Kayole estate. We recently had a chat with her and her daughter Miriam. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Miriam Akoth did her Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) in 2018, achieving a grade C. She was a student at St. Timothy Kianjeru School in Embu, Central Kenya. Since she was a boarding student, Shupavu291 was her study companion during school holidays. She says that before she discovered Shupavu291, her grades ranged between D and D-. Shupavu291 helped her improve from grade D, despite her mother not being able to afford all the required textbooks. </span></p> <p>This changed after she heard of Shupavu291 on one of the popular local radio stations, Radio Citizen. Miriam used to borrow her mother’s basic phone whenever she was on holiday, and would revise the difficult topics they had learnt at school.</p> <p>She even introduced her siblings, Ruth in form three and Esther in class six. They came up with a time-plan for sharing their mother’s basic smartphone for revision. Shupavu291 helped Ruth grasp Math formulas which she had a challenge of forgetting. Her performance in Math and Sciences has greatly improved. She recently scored 53% in Maths and 64% in Chemistry.</p> <p>Miriam also introduced her friend Venessa to Shupavu291. She says she loves competing with other students for the daily Top 10 most active students’ list. “It encourages me to keep revising”, she said. She also loves using <a href="https://enezaeducation.com/interactive-learning-on-mobile-technology-ask-a-teacher/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ask-A-Teacher</a>, because she gets her academic questions answered by teachers.</p> <p>Rose Akinyi, their mother, a casual worker at Nairobi’s Industrial Area says that she likes Shupavu291 because it keeps children busy and out of trouble. She also appreciates the fact that Shupavu291 is accessible on any phone. “My children can access learning even without the internet”, she said.</p> <p>The price of Shupavu291 is another factor that Rose Akinyi appreciates. Being a single parent, she has to squeeze the little resources she gets from her casual work to educate her three daughters and meet their basic needs. She said that two shillings a day for unlimited revision, compared to buying extra books and paying tuition fee, is a small fee to pay.</p> <p>Rose Akinyi also appreciates that Eneza Education helped her in paying part of her daughters’ school fees. Her daughters were beneficiaries of our merit based school fees campaigns in 2017. She has also introduced two other parents to Shupavu291 for their children’s academic improvement.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Miriam Akoth, Rose’s daughter is now pursuing a diploma in Information Technology at Kiriri Women’s’ University. She aspires to become a journalist. We are proud of Miriam, and believe that she will achieve her dreams. You can also subscribe to Shupavu291 by dialing *291# from any Safaricom phone for KES 2 a day, and access unlimited revision lessons and quizzes. </span></p> <p><strong>About the author: </strong></p> <p>Juliet Otieno is the Communications Associate at Eneza Education. She has a journalism and Public Relations background, blogs mostly about the girl child and women, and loves good books.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/06/06/rose-akinyi-shupavu291-user-testimonial-customers-as-product-advocates/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>Kenyan teacher, Peter Tabichi wins 2019 Global Teacher Prize</title> <link>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/03/31/kenyan-teacher-peter-tabichi-wins-2019-global-teacher-prize/</link> <comments>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/03/31/kenyan-teacher-peter-tabichi-wins-2019-global-teacher-prize/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Juliet]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2019 10:15:58 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Education in Kenya]]></category> <category><![CDATA[edtech]]></category> <category><![CDATA[education in kenya]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Global Teacher Prize 2019]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Juliet Otieno]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Peter Tabichi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[technology]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://enezaeducation.com/?p=10345</guid> <description><![CDATA[Peter Tabichi won this year’s Global Teacher prize at the Global Education Skills Forum. He is the first African teacher to win this prize. This award esteems the teaching profession, ... <a href="https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/03/31/kenyan-teacher-peter-tabichi-wins-2019-global-teacher-prize/" class="more-link">Read More</a>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_10350" style="width: 430px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Peter-Tabichi-Global-Teacher-prize-1.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10350" class="wp-image-10350 " src="https://enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Peter-Tabichi-Global-Teacher-prize-1-300x225.jpg" alt="Peter Tabichi- Global Teacher prize 1" width="420" height="315" srcset="https://www.enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Peter-Tabichi-Global-Teacher-prize-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https://www.enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Peter-Tabichi-Global-Teacher-prize-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://www.enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Peter-Tabichi-Global-Teacher-prize-1-100x75.jpg 100w, https://www.enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Peter-Tabichi-Global-Teacher-prize-1.jpg 800w" sizes="(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10350" class="wp-caption-text">Peter Tabichi- Global Teacher prize</p></div> <p>Peter Tabichi won this year’s Global Teacher prize at the Global Education Skills Forum. He is the first African teacher to win this prize. This award esteems the teaching profession, encourages best practices and affirms the nobility of the profession.</p> <h4>Global Teacher Prize Background</h4> <p>The Varkey Foundation is a a family foundation established to <a href="https://enezaeducation.com/eneza-education-among-10-african-startups-pitching-at-gesf-dubai/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">improve standards of education</a> and raise the status and capacity of teachers throughout the world. It was founded by education entrepreneur, Sunny Varkey to ensure that every child gets a good education, by having a good teacher.</p> <p>The US $1 million award presented annually to exceptional teachers who have made an outstanding contribution to their profession. The Global Teacher Prize has been running since 2015, focusing on <a href="https://www.varkeyfoundation.org/what-we-do/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">four principles</a>: Innovation, Evidence, Influence and Action.</p> <h4>Facts about Peter Tabichi:</h4> <ol> <li>Peter Tabichi is is the first African teacher, and the 5th winner of the Global Teacher Prize.</li> <li>Peter teaches at <a href="https://www.globalteacherprize.org/winners/peter-tabichi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Keriko Mixed</a> Day Secondary School in Pwani Village, situated in a remote, semi-arid part of Kenya’s Rift Valley.</li> <li>He is a Physics and Math teacher,</li> <li>He gives 80% of his teaching salary to local community projects, including education, sustainable agriculture and peace-building.</li> <li>Peter Tabichi is a Franciscan Brother, he decided to dedicate his life to serving the community.</li> <li>He comes from a family of teachers. His father was a teacher.</li> <li>Peter uses ICT in 80% of his lessons to engage students, visiting internet cafes and caching online content to be used offline in class.</li> <li>His students outperform other students from better equipped schools.</li> <li>Of the 1 Million dollars he has won, he plans to set up a computer lab in his school.</li> <li>He started a talent nurturing club and expanded the school’s Science Club, helping pupils design research projects of such quality that 60% now qualify for national competitions.</li> <li>He was even recognized by our president, who <a href="https://citizentv.co.ke/news/uhuru-gives-ksh-20m-to-winning-teacher-tabichis-school-238337/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">committed to donate Ksh.20</a> million to Keriko Mixed Day Secondary School for the expansion of infrastructure and to encourage students to undertake science subjects.</li> </ol> <p>We commend his efforts of improving access to under-served children as this is at the core of our mission. Every child has a right to quality education despite their socioeconomic status.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/03/31/kenyan-teacher-peter-tabichi-wins-2019-global-teacher-prize/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>Girls’ Education: International Day of the Girl highlight</title> <link>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2018/10/11/girls-education-international-day-of-the-girl-highlight/</link> <comments>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2018/10/11/girls-education-international-day-of-the-girl-highlight/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Juliet]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2018 13:22:07 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Education in Kenya]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Akili Dada]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Day of the Girl]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Eneza Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Girl Child Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Juliet Otieno]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Plan International]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Shofco]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Shupavu291]]></category> <category><![CDATA[WUSC]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ZanaAfrica Foundation]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://enezaeducation.com/?p=10271</guid> <description><![CDATA[Day of the Girl has been observed on 11 October since 2012. This day aims to highlight and address the needs and challenges girls face while promoting girls’ empowerment and the ... <a href="https://www.enezaeducation.com/2018/10/11/girls-education-international-day-of-the-girl-highlight/" class="more-link">Read More</a>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_10274" style="width: 572px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/KIQ_0032-e1539263754772.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10274" class="wp-image-10274" src="https://enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/KIQ_0032-300x200.jpg" alt="Promoting Girls' Education- Day of the Girl" width="562" height="375" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10274" class="wp-caption-text">Promoting Girls’ Education- Day of the Girl</p></div> <p>Day of the Girl has been observed on 11 October since 2012. This day aims to highlight and address the needs and challenges girls face while promoting girls’ empowerment and the fulfillment of their human rights. the 2018 theme is ‘With Her: A Skilled GirlForce’. Hence our highlight of organizations that do great things to keep girls in school.</p> <p>Educating a girl means that as a woman, she is empowered and more likely to participate in development efforts and in political and economic decision-making. Before we look at organizations contributing to girls’ education, let’s look at the statistics about girl child education in Africa. Girls’ enrolment to secondary school remains lower than that of boys, with a Gender Parity Index (GPI) of 0.97. The gap is significant in countries such as Angola(22% for boys/20% for girls), Eritrea (30%/20%), Ethiopia (30%/23%), Malawi (25%/23%), Somalia (9%/5%), and Zambia (38%/35%).</p> <p>The girl of today’s generation is preparing to enter a world of work that is being transformed by innovation and automation. Educated and skilled workers are in great demand. Roughly a quarter of young people – most of them female – are currently neither employed or in education or training. Poverty is the main factor undermining girls’ right to education. School fees and additional costs such as transport, clothing, and books reinforce the gender gap. When poor families cannot afford to educate all their children, it is often their daughters who have to stay home until they get married. It is under this premise that we highlight the following organizations contribute to the girl child education on this International Day of the Girl.</p> <h5><strong>Plan International</strong></h5> <p>Child marriage is a violation of girls’ fundamental human rights to health, education and a life free from abuse. The practice robs girls of their opportunity to realize their full potential. <a href="https://plan-international.org/girls-rights-activists-helping-end-child-marriage" rel="noopener">Plan International</a> runs different programs globally, fighting the vice of child marriage, hence enabling girls to stay in school.</p> <h5><strong>Shofco</strong></h5> <p>Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO) is a grassroots movement that catalyzes large-scale transformation in urban slums by providing critical services for all, community advocacy platforms, and education and leadership development for women and girls. Started in 2004 by Kenedy Odede and Jessica Posner Odede, SH run several development projects, among them being the<a href="https://www.shofco.org/category/student-highlight/"> Kibera School for Girls</a>. SHOFCO recently received the 2018 Hilton Humanitarian Award.</p> <h5><strong>Akili Dada</strong></h5> <p><a href="http://www.akilidada.org/approach/">Akili Dada</a> provides comprehensive high school scholarships to girls aged 13-19 years and seed funding for social change initiatives led by young women aged 18-35 years. They provide leadership development, mentorship, and skills development for young women and girls.</p> <h5><strong>ZanaAfrica</strong></h5> <p>ZanaAfrica Foundation supports adolescent girls in Kenya to stay in school by delivering reproductive health education and sanitary pads. Lack of Menstrual hygiene products has been directly linked to a high risk of sexual activity at a young age. In fact, 10% of all transactional sex among adolescent girls in Kenya is for sanitary pads. Two in three girls in Kenya lack access to sanitary pads and reproductive health education and 60% of the girls drop out of secondary school. Their social impact business arm, Zana Africa Group manufactures and distributes the low-cost <a href="http://www.zanaafrica.com/our-brand" rel="noopener">Nia sanitary pads </a>to ensure girls stay in school.</p> <h5><strong>WUSC</strong></h5> <p><a href="https://wusc.ca/initiatives/keep/">World University Service of Canada</a> (WUSC), along with <a href="http://www.windle.org/">Windle Trust Kenya</a> (WTK), is running a program to help marginalized girls and boys in northern Kenya. They are improving the access to and quality of education in four target communities; the Dadaab refugee camps and surrounding host communities of Fafi, Waji South and Dadaab, and the Kakuma refugee camps and their surrounding host communities in Turkana West. WUSC is building girl-friendly school environments; providing targeted support to female learners; and parent and community support for girls’ education.</p> <h5><strong>Eneza Education</strong></h5> <p>International Day of the Girl would not be complete without highlighting the work we do in removing the literacy barrier. We provide quality education through <a href="https://enezaeducation.com/product/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">simple mobile phones</a>. We have partnered with organizations that provide education to girls. Our SMS/USSD Mobile Learning platform is easily accessible because of its simplicity. Reaching over 5 Million learners in three countries; Kenya, Ghana and Ivory Coast. Our goal is making Africa Smarter through mobile phones. You can learn on the platform by dialing *291# from any Safaricom phone for only two Kenya shillings a day.</p> <h5>About the Author</h5> <p>Juliet Otieno is the Communications Associate at Eneza Education. She has a journalism and Public Relations background, blogs mostly about the <a href="https://mwanadada.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">girl child and women,</a> loves good books and sings privately, daydreams a lot and plays with words.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2018/10/11/girls-education-international-day-of-the-girl-highlight/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>