MADRID, 7 years old. (PRESS EUROPE) –
The Euroforum company has collaborated with the Vipeika Foundation to finance the desks of the new classrooms of the Pilar Galarza School, located in Kilaya, an area of Kenya with a high rate of poverty, on a mountain 1,750 meters high.
In this Kenyan school, an average of 225 students study a year who live about 45 kilometers around the center, with no primary school nearby. The students range in age from 7 to 12 and most of them are boys, although more and more girls are studying there.
With the aim of improving educational conditions, the center will be demolished in 2023 and a new building will be built with new and larger classrooms that will need equipment, such as desks, which are essential for children to study while sitting comfortably at a desk, according to Euroforum in a statement.
The school is located in Kilaya, within Pokot County, near the Ugandan border, on a 1,750m high mountain. It is a region where most of the schools are located in very remote and difficult to access rural areas.
Pokot has 500,000 inhabitants of which a quarter of the population is engaged in agriculture. Predominantly Muslim, marriage is allowed from the age of 15 for boys and from 11 for girls, which is why many of them drop out of school early.
The literacy rate in Kenya is 78%, but in these remote areas the figure drops to 45%, mainly because children do not have schools near their cities.
Euroforum has been developing corporate social responsibility (CSR) actions and has been collaborating with the Vipeika Foundation for over 10 years, through projects dedicated to early childhood education.
