Written By Ramadhan Kambi 📝
Accessing education in most remote parts of this country has always remained a painstaking affair.
However, more intervention in the sector through donor funding has brought a new lease of life.
In realization to the same, an International Charitable organization from London UK has constructed a new fully-fledged primary school in one of the remotest areas of Magarini sub-county in Kilifi County at a cost of Sh7 million.
Muslim Charity organization through donations from friends, families, and well-wishers of the Kenya 2022 team donated the funds to Mamburui Oasis of Hope for the Estitute to construct eight classrooms at Mfulani primary school.
Before then, pupils in the area were learning in mud-walled with Makuti structures and used to sit on logs of pieces of wood placed on the earthen floor.
Yesterday, the Muslim Charity organization together with national government officials from the county joined the hundreds of pupils and parents in celebrations as the project was officially handed over to the community.
Locals could not hide their joy upon getting the fully-fledged primary school together with the eight toilets, a mosque and a borehole.
Mfulani area is in Mwangatini area of Pumwani location and despite having a big population, children had to walk for a long distance to get to school which was challenging.
Halima Omar who is the Chairlady of Mamburui Oasis Mambourin of Hope for the Estitute said the Project started last year and they managed to construct eight classrooms, eight toilets, a mosque, and a borehole
She said the organization also built classrooms in Pumwani, madrassas in Gongoni, mosques in Misufini, and Marikebuni.
“Today we have opened a big project that is going to help about 700 students. We came here last year and saw the plight of the children and we were informed that they were using mud classes which were porous,” she said.
Omar added that they found out the children had no facilities, not even a blackboard which was a nightmare that touched her and the London-based partners.
On a material day, she said most of the partners shed tears upon seeing the plight of the children and after sharing clips of the school back home, they resolved to build eight classrooms.
“Money was sent to a tune of Sh7 million and we came up with this project, it is going to have a very big impact because primary schools are very few in the area,” she said.
Magarini Sub County Director of Education Ismail Barow announced that the Ministry has begun the process of registering the school so as to be able to get funding and government teachers from the Ministry so as to relieve parents from the burden of paying teachers.
He said they had already begun undertaking a quality assessment report adding that the quality assurance officer was present to do the process and hand it over to the authorities.
“It’s almost done there was a few information we wanted from the community and we will fast track the process, once this process is completed, we will bring government teachers here, we will not disturb the community to pay the teachers, we will also give the school what we call free primary school fund,’ he said.
Muslim Charity brought a delegation of 22 members and the head of the team Ijpat Rajput from London said they were happy to have supported the school but called on the community, leaders, and government institutions to ensure the school performs well.
He said they are giving the school one year to see the results and if they are good, they will build a fully-fledged secondary school in the area.
“For us, it’s not important whether you are Muslim, Christian, or no religion at all when it comes to the secondary school, we want to see the government’s commitment to recognizing this school first with the performance of the school,” he said.
The DCC on his part said as a government they will do their best but asked the donors to continue supporting the community as there are still challenges.
He told the community to desist from wrangles that could affect the progress of the school adding that men should give girls a chance to go to school.
Mr. Maalim who is the PA of Magarini MP Michael Kingi said they are happy to receive the support from the donors as it would go a long way to uplift the standards of education of the school.
Community members said for a long time there have been challenges in accessing education and called on the donors to support them in building the secondary school.
Samuel Birya, a community representative, said children have suffered for many years but now have a good place for them to access education.
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