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Twiga is Swahili for –giraffe-. For Twiga Education & Coaching a twiga is a child who has more intellectual potence than he or she will be able to explore on an ordinary rural public school. A child who stands-out-in-the-crowd. Twiga wants to give such child a chance for a proper education.
TEC scouts these children, brings them to private primary schools, later to National High schools and universities. Once TEC takes a child in the programm the childs acdemic education is guaranteed upto university degree. (Provided he performs upto standard).
TEC contributes in this way to the developement of Kenya with its own people and become so less dependent from external aid.
• Check on mid and end term tests
• Talk with the best performing pupils
• Do games and other activities with these selected children to judge their abilities and attitude to learning
• Talk with parents or caretakers about the Twiga programm and the participation which is expected from them
• Intake test at WOL (Word of Life) private primary school
• Assignment at WOL
| Primary school | High School & University | |||
| TEC |
• Admission fee • Tuition fees • Transport • Books • Shoes • Bag |
• 90% of Admission- & Tuition fees • 90% of Boardingcosts |
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| Parents Caretakers Orphanage |
• Uniform • Lunch |
• 10% of Admission- & Tuition fees • 10% of Boardingcosts |
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Msambweni is located on the Kenyan coast, about 60 kilomoeters south of harbourcity of Mombasa. Politically is mostly quiet. Poverty and unemployment are the rule. The climate is hot and humid. Flora is there in abundance: banana’s, corn, mango’s, cashewtrees, coconutpalms, papaya’s, cassava, bougainvillae and frangipani, it all grows in plenty.
De local tribe is the Digo people. Most of them cater for their daily needs by small scale farming or by fishing. At night they go out on the sea by boats (ngalawa’s) made out of hollowed mangotrees.
The population is predominated Moslim and extremely large family are in the majority.
The HIV/Aids percentage is between 15-25 %. The agegroup <30 is overpresented compared with the elderly. A lot of families are one-parented.
Only a small percentage of the houses are made of stone. Most houses are build from wooden frames filled with mud and thatched roofs.
Running water is an exception. Most people get their (unclean) water from wells. Toilets are not excisting. Hygiene is therefore a difficult concept. Malaria is a common course of death.
The local governance is (bottom – up) Subchief – Chief – District Officer (DO)
On provincial level that is the District Commissionar, in our case he is holding office in Kwale
The local sentiment is that the coastal tribes are deprived from good education, logistics, electricity supply etc. In short: they feel themselves discriminated by the upcountry federal, non-moslim rule.
