By Fredrick Odiero
Stakeholders of Tieng’re primary school in Kisumu West sub-county have welcomed the move by a United Kingdom organization to construct four modern classrooms in the school at a cost of Sh5.8 million.
The organization, known as Kisumu Children Trust through the Kisumu Children Ministry, constructed the classrooms with an aim of decongesting both class seven and eight.
Addressing the gathering during the official commissioning of the new facilities, Kisumu Children Ministries Cherry Brierley children’s home manager Reverend Philemon Oguna added that each of the new classrooms will accommodate 63 pupils.
He added that the organization will equip the classrooms with desks worth Shs 370,000.
Rev Oguna said that they have been able to fence the whole school, construct a new gate at Shs 1.3 million, drill a borehole and put up a huge water tank at Shs 2.2 million. They also have future plans of constructing toilets to serve the ever growing population of pupils.
He added that they have been in partnership with the school for the last 12 years.
The school’s head teacher Alice Omollo lauded the organization’s move to construct the new classrooms.
She said the school has a population of 905 pupils up from 300 pupils in 2010 when she joined the institution as its head.
Omollo said with the growing population of the pupils, there is still need to construct more classrooms and other infrastructure especially at this time when the national government is implementing Competency Based Curriculum (CBC).
