Since 1999 we have raised over £700,000 to build three new schools from scratch and renovate
and maintain eight more.
Unlike most similar charities,
we are run by volunteers and have no offices,
so virtually every penny we receive
goes straight to schools and students
in some of the very poorest areas of rural Kenya.
Take a look at our schools
or read on...
Lereshwa Secondary School
The first rural Kenyan school with a computer lab, Lereshwa was founded in 1994 to offer cheap secondary education to pupils from neighbouring primary schools. It is situated on the top of a hill on ground that was thought useless, but the community has proved that through good farming techniques, trees will grow. Lereshwa is now full and HSK hopes to fund four new classrooms over the next three years.
Kahuho Primary School
Kahuho Primary School started in a former colonial farmhouse, which now serves as the school office. The school is reached by a very rough road which is negotiable only by four wheel drive vehicles, and is totally impassable after heavy rain. We have completely transformed Kahuho, but there is still a small amount left to do.
Kekopey Primary School
Kekopey Primary School has a very large catchment area, made up of predominantly rocky land which is unsuitable for subsistence farming. We have renovated four of the old classrooms to a high standard and have provided desks and furniture. Our next immediate priority is the construction of a large rainwater harvesting tank.
Kekopey Secondary School
Kekopey Secondary School is currently a hastily-improvised temporary construction started and maintained by the local community. Instead, we want to provide them with a brand new school built to the very highest standards and fully equipped with science and IT labs and modern cooking and dining facilities.
Komothai Primary School
Komothai is situated at about 7,000 feet above sea level on a ridge. The number of pupils is continuing to increase rapidly. It is an unpopular school for teachers since for many it is a long way from their homes. Over the next four years we want to provide four classrooms (two of them also laboratories), an assembly hall, a dining hall and staff facilities.
Kamahia Primary School
Kamahia Primary School is situated on top of a ridge, with a pupil catchment area of about six miles. Thanks to a particularly generous donation in 2000, an entire classroom block has been roofed. We need to complete the unfinished classrooms so that all 16 are finished to the same standard.
Karuri Primary School
Until 1999, Karuri was one of the poorest schools in the area; all of the buildings were made of mud and there were no books for the children. We completely rebuilt Karuri between 1997 and 1999 at a cost of £35,000.
Kamathatha Primary School
Kamathatha Primary School is situated below Gilgil, on the arid and dusty floor of the Rift Valley. The school has around 300 pupils, drawn from a mixed community of pastoral Maasai as well as Kikuyu. Although Kamathatha has taken great steps over the last year, there is still plenty of work to be done.
Cedar Primary School
Cedar Primary School, near Gilgil, Kenya, serves several hundred pupils within a ten-mile radius. Its current classrooms are badly built and at the point of collapsing, and the school has no other facilities to speak of. We aim to entirely rebuild Cedar Primary School to a high standard over the next five years.
Eburru Primary School
Eburru Primary School is the most remote and inaccessible of the schools we have worked with. The lack of nearby water, poor roads and shortage of suitable building stone in the area has made building new classrooms at Eburru very difficult. Our immediate priority is the construction of a large rainwater harvesting tank. We are then planning to renovate some of the existing classrooms, including one for use as a staffroom.
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Ngecho Secondary School
We founded Ngecho Secondary School in 2006 because hundreds of children had nowhere to go after leaving primary school. In 2009 it was the top day secondary school in the district: proof that secondary education can be both high-quality and affordable.
