Saturday, December 18, 2010
busy 2010.
hi everyone!
my name is Richard Teka, the current Principal of KGSA.
it has been a long and busy year for the KGSA family!. we were to have had our form four(grade 12) students sit for the national exams for the first time at our school and I'm glad the government supervisors and invigilators were were happy with the whole process. unfortunately the results won't be out until early March 2011.
December to me seems to be best month of the with so many things happening so fast! first i and Abdul went for the international conference on schools that sustain themselves.. i learned different ways we can come up with activities and businesses that can help sustain a school and i hope to initiate changes come next year.
we were also able to meet people from more than 30 countries who are involved in running schools and educational institutions and are able to sustain the schools from 5% to 100%!
i also experienced the calmness and the high discipline the Tanzanian people have starting from small children to the older people.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Hello Everyone,
I am just from a conference on sustainable schools in Tanzania. It was a great experience in that this was my 1st visit to Tanzania and the conference was in this town that has a very reach history called BAGAMOYO. I was amazed by the number of people who turned out for the conference and more surprising was the number of schools that have already started working towards self sustainability. I was also very happy because this is very much in line with our SECURE A FUTURE CAMPAIGN THAT Ryan has been pushing for in the US since his return from Kenya in July. There was a school from Paraguay that is 100% self sustainable with a budget of 300,000$ a year. Most were still counting on the percentages of their self sustainabiltiy and it was clear that this is the direction every educationist wants to go and fundacion paraguaya, the 100% self sufficient school has proved to all of us that this is indeed a possibility. Schools in Uganda are already talking of between 50 to 60% self sufficiency. It was indeed an inspiration hearing their success stories and an honor sitting with such successful people. I am now more convinced than ever before that this is the way to go and am sure KGSA will also be sitting in this conference proudly displayig its achievements come the next one.
I therefore would like to appeal to all KGSA family members to work with and support Ryan in the SECURE A FUTURE CAMPAIGN. That is the only platform to take KGSA a notch highre into sell sufficiency.I also hope to bring with me the knowledge I received from the conference into making KGSA realise this goal.
I am just from a conference on sustainable schools in Tanzania. It was a great experience in that this was my 1st visit to Tanzania and the conference was in this town that has a very reach history called BAGAMOYO. I was amazed by the number of people who turned out for the conference and more surprising was the number of schools that have already started working towards self sustainability. I was also very happy because this is very much in line with our SECURE A FUTURE CAMPAIGN THAT Ryan has been pushing for in the US since his return from Kenya in July. There was a school from Paraguay that is 100% self sustainable with a budget of 300,000$ a year. Most were still counting on the percentages of their self sustainabiltiy and it was clear that this is the direction every educationist wants to go and fundacion paraguaya, the 100% self sufficient school has proved to all of us that this is indeed a possibility. Schools in Uganda are already talking of between 50 to 60% self sufficiency. It was indeed an inspiration hearing their success stories and an honor sitting with such successful people. I am now more convinced than ever before that this is the way to go and am sure KGSA will also be sitting in this conference proudly displayig its achievements come the next one.
I therefore would like to appeal to all KGSA family members to work with and support Ryan in the SECURE A FUTURE CAMPAIGN. That is the only platform to take KGSA a notch highre into sell sufficiency.I also hope to bring with me the knowledge I received from the conference into making KGSA realise this goal.
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