Creating libraries and safe spaces for children to learn.
Supporting the education of needy communities in rural Kenya by building libraries and running projects that support literacy. Doing campaigns against systems and traditions that threaten any child’s education e.g. FGM, early/child marriages and gender inequality.
Lack of Exposure
* Lack of exposure: major cause of transfers to private schools (UNICEF). * ICT: Computer to student ratio is 1:150. * Computer labs: 20% of secondary schools have computer labs. 10% are broken down.
Inadequate Reading Materials
* Current text book sharing ratio 1 book:5 pupils
* Poverty in families
* Lack of Role models
Lack of Skills
Young women: 30% lack foundation skills. Young men: 26% lack foundation skills. Unemployment: 50% of rural men and 80% of rural women aged 15 to 24 do not have income generating activities.
Dropping Out of School
1 out of 10 pupils do not complete primary school. Young men: 27% did not complete secondary education. Young women: 32% did not complete secondary education .
Organizational Background
Maktaba Mashinani Foundation (MMF) is a registered non-government entity operating under the NGOs co-ordination regulations of Kenya. The NGO is an operational NGO, meaning the MMF team plans and carries out boots-on-the-ground projects to accomplish MMF’s objectives. This requires a great deal of careful planning, communication, and local involvement for each project. Maktaba Mashinani is in the initial stages of building the first modern rural library in the Kenya. This is being done in Nyandarua County.
Maktaba Mashinani Foundation’s main goal is to improve basic literacy skills of rural children and the youth in all Counties in Kenya. This is by providing learning and recreational materials and facilities through building, equipping and managing of modern rural libraries enabled by close participation and partnership with rural schools and rural communities of Kenya. MMF’s goal is inspired by and supports United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12.