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 Kenya achieved almost 90% enrolment of children into primary schools after the introduction of Free Primary Education Policy in 2002. Statistics indicate that educational attainment of 17-22 year olds between 2006 and 2011 was that only 46% of primary school going children attended school.  

In a study carried out in 2011, statistics show that the average pupil from a poor household has left primary school before completion and many more repeat grades. For every 10 pupils who start school, 6 may drop out. Rural and poor children are more likely to drop out. 32 million primary school children worldwide repeat a grade, 31 million have dropped out of these 9% or 2.88 million are in Sub Saharan Africa.

Studies have also shown that high repetition and dropout rates are associated with inadequate levels of basic learning achievement in reading and mathematics. Between 2008 and 2012, large scale reading assessments were conducted in 26 countries among national samples of pupils in Class 2 to Class 4. Half of the children tested could not read a single word. Yet “language capacity is at the root of all academic performance.”

Pupils who are not able to read do not have the prerequisite skills for successful learning in later grades, skills which are a foundation for further learning. Many youngsters are completing primary school each year without having acquired basic literacy skills denying them the basic tool they can use to increase their life chances and economic opportunities that could lift them out of poverty or other disadvantaged backgrounds, denying them a basic human right.

We are changing this 180 children at a time

Statistical Sources: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Demographic and Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys; Kangundo District Development Plan 2008-2012