Students of Kirigara Girls High School in Meru County have a reason to smile after SAFAL MRM Foundation chipped in to assist put up a new Multipurpose hall in the school at a cost of approximately Ksh2 million.
SAFAL MRM Foundation Head Siprosa Rabach said they have been doing philanthropic work in a bid to give back to the community.
“We have been doing business but it’s also good to take care of community needs that cannot be commercialized. So for the past 26 years we have been helping out in situations where we see the need across the country,” Rabach said.
She said with the help of the community, the Ministry of Education and the board of management at the school, they have been able to put up a multipurpose hall at Kirigara girls high school.
She said the hall will help ease the congestion and boost learning in the institution.
Architecture who designed the building Evans Makan, a lecturer at Jomo Kenyatta University said he visited the school and empathized with the girls as the previous dining hall was too small and could not accommodate all the students.
“They had to take meals in shifts and when it rained others would be stranded outside,” Makan said.
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Makan said they designed the building for free as a way to give back to the community as he saw what students were going through.
He said the concept of his circular design was themed for freedom.
“I wanted to design in a way to inspire them as future leaders so that it could open their eyes so they could free their minds, thoughts to free them from local thinking since in the whole constituency it is the only building with such a design making it unique,” he added.
The school principal Agnes Mwiti said they are delighted with the donation from Mabati Rolling Mills as girls had no room where they could fit during assembly and other meetings.
“Prior to this construction, our dining hall that was an old Mabati structure could only host 200. Last year we had 1200 and now we have about 800,”she said.
The new multipurpose hall can host 2000 students.
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Mwiti said the board of management had given some money for construction of the hall but it was not enough and they went out looking for well-wisher and that how they managed to get help from Mabati Rolling Mills.
She said prior to the donation, they would hold meetings and assemblies outside.
“Sometimes it would rain in the middle of an assembly and we would have to call off the meeting and wait for the weather to be conducive,” she added.
She said most students are from humble backgrounds and parents struggle paying fees making it difficult to raise additional funds.
The school head said the new multi-purpose hall has motivated the school to produce good results as both teachers and students are delighted with the building.
By John Majau
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