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  MICHE BORA PRIMARY SCHOOL
 
  
 
Our school started from the germ of an idea from that first meeting in September 2008. Since that time we have changed premises 5 times but now have found a great building  (see left) which will last us for several years. Until we can build our own.
 
   We provide poor children with the sort of education normally available only to the rich. This means excellent, well qualified teachers (we paid for two to receive in-service training) classes of 25 or less and fantastic resources. Some of these resources were shipped out, some we bought in Kenya as the result of a large donation from the British and Foreign Schools Society and some were donated. Like the 3000 books from Books Abroad (a Scottish Charity).    
                                                             		  
  Primary education in Kenya is free but there are conditions. We have made our school affordable for all and this means that for some children we provide uniform and all other resources. Others pay around £4 per month.  
 
Many of our children come to school hungry and we provide porridge mid-morning. Mustard Seed Project provide nothing for  free (except to the most needy) but those who do pay in full are probably contributing around 50% of what it costs the charity.  
 
  In April 2011 the Herrod Foundation a Swiss Charitable Trust gave Mustard Seed Project a large donation for a lunch-time feeding programme. This was started at the beginning of May and ensures that our children receive a balanced meal each day.  
 
In September 2011 we opened a Nursery Class thanks to a donation from the British and Foreign Schools Society which has enabled us to buy the necessary resouces.The nursery has a small classroom within the school but also takes place under a canopy to allow greater freedom.

                 

We plan to increase by one class per year to maintain the current good standards in the school. In January 2012, at the start of the educational year we had 139 children in a total of 6 classes from nursery to Standard 2.  		  
     
  Updated February 2012  
     
   
 
 
 
   
   
 
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The Mustard Seed Project (Kenya), UK Registered Charity No. 1127935,
Company Limited by Guarantee No. 6778042 and registered as a Charitable Trust in Kenya.