HomesKenya and KICC renovate classrooms for needy pupils

HomesKenya Limited and KICC officials at Gatina Primary School, Nairobi. PHOTO | COURTESY

What you need to know:

  • The works completed included tiling of dilapidated classroom floors, painting and provision of desks and seating facilities for the children.
  • Phase II of the project was commissioned at the event. This phase will include building of the staffroom, kitchen with biogas technology, ICT centre, parking lot and complete refurbishment of dilapidated classrooms and lavatories.

HomesKenya Limited, the organiser of the Kenya Homes Expo in partnership with the KICC, completed Phase I of their corporate social responsibility activities at Gatina Primary School in Nairobi.

The works completed included tiling of dilapidated classroom floors, painting and provision of desks and seating facilities for the children.

In July, at a ceremony to officiate the rehabilitation, KICC chief executive, Ms Nana Gecaga, emphasised the need for corporates to give heed to scarcity by taking on projects that impact on the less privileged.

She encouraged the children to aim high and work hard in their studies and take good care of their health while telling them that with hard work, all dreams are achievable.

During the event, Ministry of Education, Dagoretti county official, Ms Alice Gathii, commended the two corporates for taking initiative to rehabilitate the primary school.

She emphasised on the need to have a conducive learning environment and highlighted the role of the ministry in the provision of quality education to future generations.

She went further to promise the team that the students would deliver superb results in this year’s KCPE examinations.

ALL SMILES

The chairman of HomesKenya Limited, Mr Daniel Ojijo, thanked the KICC chief executive officer for the support and partnership in noble ventures that touch on the lives of under-privileged children, who are the country’s future.

Mr Ojijo said that we all have a role to play to make the society a better place even if it means removing thorns in one’s way to avoid the feet getting hurt.

The headmaster of Gatina Primary School, Mr Wallace Gitau, thanked KICC and HomesKenya Limited for their dynamic and kind gesture that has seen children enrol in high numbers.

“The children are all smiles and their performance in school has gone up due to improved learning facilities,” he said.

Phase II of the project was commissioned at the event. This phase will include building of the staffroom, kitchen with biogas technology, ICT centre, parking lot and complete refurbishment of dilapidated classrooms and lavatories.

The 27th Kenya Homes Expo starts today at the KICC and will be graced by the Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development, Mr James Macharia.

The expo is themed “Homes for All” and is being held in line with the governments Agenda 4 of Affordable Housing for All.