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Mwangaza Visionary School- Report for the year 2008 Overview The year 2008 was one for in house development in the management of Mwangaza Visionary School. The BoG concentrated on improving the team at the School. We started by reviewing the Salary Structure for the teachers and that added some motivation for the teachers. This Structure will still need further improvement until we are able to fully retain our teachers. We invest considerable time and effort in training the teachers for them to conceptualize our vision and every time we loose some to TSC, it takes us some steps back. However, we have a few teachers that we can count on come rain come shine. Establishment The School has a capacity to hold up to 440 Pupils. We however have about 350 pupils at the moment. We have a Staff force of 17 workers. Among these 14 are Teachers while 3 are Assistant Staff – One Cook and 2 Watchmen. The Current Monthly Salary for the Staff works out to Ksh 136,800.00. We propose to raise this by about 25% to Kshs 171,000.00 in the year 2009. This will be necessary for us to be able to make additional steps towards a scale that can retain our Teachers. The BoG is satisfied with the efforts of our teachers and will be glad to be able to adequately compensate the good efforts. We therefore would like to make an appeal to the general membership of MPC to consider enlisting as a sponsor of Mwangaza Visionary School from this year 2009. Academic Performance We had our 2nd KCPE class in the year 2008. The results were very encouraging: Best Candidate had 416 Marks and was admitted to Starehe Boys Centre. The Second Candidate had 406 Marks and was admitted to Alliance Boys The third Candidate was a Girl with 390 Marks and was admitted to Limuru Girls. All the other candidates passed as the mean score was 309.9 Marks and were admitted to various schools in the District. At the time of AGM all of them have reported to their respective Schools apart from one who did not want to go to a day school where she was admitted and opted to drop out. With this performance, there are many parents who want to bring their children to Mwangaza and we are grateful to God for this milestone in the Development of the School. We look forward to better times ahead. BoG Bursary Fund At the begging of the year 2008, the BoG felt that we needed to set up a Bursary Fund from which we could address needy and genuine cases. We were able to raise about Ksh 103,000.00 through individuals and awareness Sundays both at MPC Central and MPC Mtwapa. We thank God for the good effort. Through this fund, we were able to assist 4 Candidates to secure their places in Form 1 in the year 2009. We were particularly keen to see that the candidates who got admission to national Schools did not miss the places. Through giving an interview to the respective parents, we gave grants to some, while we gave refundable loans to some of the parents. The amounts that will be paid will be re-credited back to the fund for future use. We were glad that we were able to assist in those cases on emergency basis and the candidates were able to report to school. However, the BoG is not committal to further financial assistance after the child has reported to school. We pray and hope that they will be able to secure Bursary Fund assistance from the Ministry of Education and the CDF funds, which require one to have reported and started the school to be considered. Projects We did not undertake construction projects in the past year. We instead concentrated on the administration and academic performance of the School. However, in the coming year 2009, there are a number of projects that need to be undertaken: 1. Toilet Block for Teachers. This is an urgent requirement and is estimated to cost about Kshs 200,000. Construction involves a pit that is built with coral block walls to the bottom due to problem of collapsing. 2. Repair of Classroom floors. A number of classes require floors to be redone. This will include redoing the verandahs due to cracks. 3. Repair of water harvesting gutters. These require a redesign to facilitate optimum collection of the water even when the rains are not enough. 4. Additional one Classroom and a library block. These 2 may cost about 1 million due to the escalated cost of materials. 5. Fencing. We need a perimeter fence around the property. 6. Multipurpose Hall. This is a pending project since 2007. We still need Additional funds to be able to kick it off- the shortfall was 1 Million in 2007 after we raised about half a million. Current Cost could be Approximately 2 million. We therefore covet your prayers and involvement to help us meet these requirements. Conclusion We can say with confidence, EBENEZER. For thus far the Lord has brought us. Despite the initial resistance during our years of small beginnings, the Lord has continued to provide the resources we needed and He is giving us some of the fruit of our Labour through the few that are getting the desired change that we anticipated when we were starting the School. The Community around the School is getting hopeful that it is not very bad for them after all. Their children can go to National Schools, something that had never been imagined before. One parent we assisted take his child to Starehe Boys came back and gave his life to Christ. It was too much for him to believe! To him it must have been God and he surrendered his life to this God! That is our God! Report Compiled by: Samuel Mwaura, Secretary, Mwangaza BoG |
