Viva Suba Girls Project
"ISLANDERS KENYA advocates for ethnic minority Girls rights, equality and empowerment through primary, secondary, tertiary education and training up to highest level"
Theme: "No Girl Left Behind"
Our Programmes
Our programmes epitomizes the aspirations of the UN Pledge:
"We pledge" says the UN in its manifesto on Sustainable Development Goals, "that no one will be left behind" (in the collective journey to end poverty and inequality).
In addition, "the most marginalized will be prioritized ". "We will endeavor" the UN pledges, "to reach the furthest behind first"'.
Source: United Nations.
Our Key Thematic Areas
A. Improving School Infrastructure
1: Rehabilitating Girls' schools in disrepair.
KEMIGS Project aims at repairing and re-launching dilapidated classrooms in girls schools to provide education for ethnic minority girls.
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2: Expanding learning space in overcrowded schools.
KEMIGS Project plans to help reduce class size in overcrowded classrooms by building additional new classrooms in existing schools in remote rural villages in Kenya.
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Building of School library
Laboratory for Girls
Building new Classrooms and Repair
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Building Dining Hall
Girls Domitory
Building Kitchen
B. Access to Water and Sanitation and Hygiene facilities (WASH)
To ensue that one of the barriers for girls is addressed, the project will be rehabilitating water, sanitation and hygiene of the targeted girls schools among the ethnic minority communities of Kenya
1. Girls- Only Toilets
When schools aren’t equipped with safe, private and clean girls-only facilities , girls have to go to the bathroom in the bushes, fields or even in public – an embarrassing experience and one that can jeopardize their safety and health.
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2. Menstrual Hygiene Management
In many remote rural villages in Kenya, the lack of menstrual health information and resources can leave many girls scared and confused during their periods. There is urgent need to change this! Students – girls and boys – need to learn about sexual reproductive health, and girls to learn how to manage their menstrual cycles with reusable, eco-friendly pads.
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Access to clean, safe and adequate water supply within the school
Provision of sanitary napkins disposal facilities in rural girls schools
3. Bicycles for Girls
..along walk to school shouldn't keep girls from an education.
For many rural girls, traveling to school consume valuable time that could be spent helping with chores or earning wages. Reducing travel time doesn't always have to mean building new schools- it could mean other creative strategies to leverage existing resources and make journey to school easier.
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By providing bicycles to girls, we reduce travel time and break one of the first barriers to making education work for every girl.
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A single bicycle help a girl saves upto 2 hours travel time everyday, 14 hours a a week, 56 hours a month, 506 hours a year and 2024 hours in 4 years of secondary education.
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With bicycles girls enrollment in secondary school is expected to increase by 32% with the impact mostly among girls who live between 2-6 miles from school- too far to walk, but not too far to bike!
4. Keep Girls in School Scholarship
SCHOLARSHIPS
Ethnic Minority groups are faced with poverty that often force many families to pull their daughters out of school because they see less value in educating them than boys. KEMIGS project is working to change the mindset within the ethnic minority groups by supporting girls' education.
Through Keep Girls in School Scholarship girls will be able to get the chance to complete their education and show their families and communities their full potential.
5. Light for Girls
..For girls, solar light can make a big difference
Among the ethnic minority, daughters are traditionally responsible for coking, cleaning, and other household chores. So, when girls come home from school, they often cant compete their homework when its still light outside.
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Without access to electricity lighting, girls have to do their home work by candle light, or wake up extra early.
KEMIGS project is tackling this issue and helping to provide poor families with sustainable energy sources by introducing solar energy lights. For girls, this can make a big difference.
6. Menstrual Hygiene Management
KEMIGS Project provides re-usable sanitary products to girls living in poverty so that they can attend school during their menstrual cycle. The kits are re-usable sanitary products that last upto 5 years
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This approach is also environment friendly since it prevents disposable pads that are often disposed in the community that have no land fill or incineration capacity. Eco-friendly pads are healthy and provides girls with upto 20% school retention period.
