The Ol Pejeta Conservancy Community Development Programme believes that education lays a good foundation for the future and as such invests heavily in the learning of students in the community with the assistance of various partners. One such partner, the Rotary World Help Network, recently donated computers and books to schools in to enable local children develop a reading culture and acquire information technology skills.

Rotary World Help Network is a charitable organization that coordinates the shipment of educational, humanitarian, and medical supplies to countries in need. The organization sent educational materials through the Ol Pejeta Conservancy to be distributed to our surrounding communities. After getting to Kenya, Computers for Schools Kenya (CFSK), which facilitates the development of information and communication technology infrastructure in the country, helped by repackaging the shipment into boxes before they got to the Conservancy. The donation contained a wide assortment of educational materials from textbooks and computers to crayons, colouring books and writing pads - truly valuable resources capable of transforming struggling schools into institutions of learning.

Colouring pencils, crayons, baby staplers and their staples, story books, medals and badges, writing pads, erasers and sharpeners went to Chuma, St. Trezas, Wathituga, Yard, Namunyak, Endana, Uaso Nyiro and Njoguini nursery schools. The beneficiaries of the assorted reading material and computers included Loise Nanyuki Girls High school, Sweetwaters Secondary school, St. Augustine Sirima Secondary school, Irura Primary and the Laikipia District Community Library.

These donations give the students chances they otherwise wouldn’t have - chances to acquire much needed information technology skills in this digital age and also broaden their horizons. As Nelson Mandela once said, education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.

If you would like to support the Ol Pejeta Community Education Programme please contact community@olpejetaconservancy.org for more information. We will help to identify those most in need of assistance, transparently administer the disbursement of donations and provide regular progress reports.