Kenya Equity in Education Project (KEEP)

Project completed implementation in December 2022

WUSC’s KEEP project aimed to support 20,670 girls from Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camps and the surrounding communities for whom conflict, displacement, and extreme poverty have made access to education extremely challenging.

The project helped these girls to stay in school, attain functional literacy and numeracy, and to make successful transitions to further education or employment. It focused on girls, mainly adolescents, at the highest risk of dropping out of school. The project supported the girls by offering remedial classes and by equipping them with life skills and greater self-confidence. The project also worked with local and national governments and the surrounding communities, notably the men and boys, to increase support for girls' education and ensure the long-term sustainability of the project.

Activities

• Provided additional educational support to over 3,000 girls each year, through remedial classes which focus on literacy and numeracy
• Provided cash transfers and scholarships to over 5,000 of the most marginalised girls to address cost barriers such as those of tuition, transport, uniforms, and sanitary pads
• Trained teachers on gender sensitivity, large classroom management and effective approaches to the teaching of numeracy and English language
• Provided training and guidance for teachers on career and academic counselling, work and skills training, and child protection
• Invested in schools' infrastructure to increase capacity and make them safer
• Improved school governance through training for over 200 Parents Associations and 100 Boards of Management
• Addressed cultural and social barriers to girls’ education through a media campaign

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