EDUCATION
At EAPCC, we believe in the adage that “education is the key to a brighter future” that's why education, specifically children's literacy and especially that of the girl child, is a top priority and the main focus of EAPCC’s community affairs programs nationwide.
In the just completed financial year, EAPCC in recognition of the plight that had affected the residents of the greater Kajiado Central Area whose main residents are pastoralists was hard hit by the 2009 drought leading to the loss of countless livestock and eradicating the communities’ earning power. The effect of the drought had already trickled into the education sector as the parents could not afford to pay fees for their children and more children were being pulled out of schools.
It is in consideration of the people’s plight, and the fate of the children, that the Company intervened and donated a one-off bursary of Kshs 2,250,000 to needy students in the Greater Kajiado Central Area.
The Company also ran the construction of 3 strategic CSR projects in the Kabini Hill area. The three academic projects were aimed at bettering the academic life and standards in the Kabini Hill area, where EAPCC conducts a majority of its extraction work.
The 3 projects namely Elerai MCK Girls Secondary School (a two-wing dormitory) Elerai Primary School (Classroom No.1) and E.A Kabini Primary School (Dining Hall/Kitchen) all stand as testament to EAPCC’s continual support and its commitment to bettering the academic life and standards in the Kabini Hill area, where EAPCC conducts the majority of its extraction work.
Elerai MCK Girls Secondary School
Construction of the two wing-wing dormitory is a great step in ensuring proper development of education for the girl child in the area. By providing more and better facilities, EAPCC continues to ensure that the girl child is sufficiently empowered through the provision of quality education. This new dormitory block will help house 144 students, giving them more time to concentrate with their education”.
SET IN STONE: The two Dormitory wings at Elerai MCK Girls Secondary School
Elerai Primary School
Elerai Primary School was the next project to be unveiled. Before EAPCC’s intervention young Standard One children were learning under a tree. Today, however, they have an EAPCC built 40- seater fully furnished classroom. The Area MP, Hon. Maj. Gen. (Rtd) Joseph Nkaissery thanked EAPCC for their steadfast commitment as they had promised to build the classroom earlier in the year. He appreciated the work the Company had done towards the development of the Sultan Hamud community. Nkaissery also took this opportunity to thank EAPCC for the bursary allocation that they had awarded needy students in the Greater Kajiado Central area earlier in the year. The Shs 2,250,000 bursary went a long way in ensuring the continuity of education at a time when the area and indeed the country was greatly affected by the drought. The MP urged the pupils of the school to study hard in order to excel. He called upon the parents in the area to bring all their children to school in order to ensure the region’s further development
UNVEILED: Assistant. Minister for Defence and Kajiado Central MP, Maj. Gen (Rtd) Joseph Nkaissery officially unveils the plaque at Elerai Primary School
Kabini Primary School
Having seen the dire conditions in which the school children at Kabini Primary were eating, EAPCC decided to intervene and not only build the school a new dining hall/ kitchen, but take over the school to become the E.A Portland Kabini Primary School.
By improving the learning conditions of students EAPCC nurtures the young minds that will drive this country in the future.
< Back |
