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Community Library
and Tutoring Program
About the program
A Tutoring and Homework Help Program began in May 2010. It runs three times a week. Students from informal schools come to do their homework and receive one-on-one tutoring. AHCP has already made partnerships with other CBOs in Kibera which are also tutoring children in order to avoid duplication of activities as well as reach out to as many children as possible. The tutors also facilitate activities such as debates, language clubs and reading circles. Books are provided by local book shops and publishing companies. The library is well stocked with educational text books, story books, magazines, atlases, autobiographies and biographies, dictionaries, etc.
AHCP’s permanent members and international volunteers have all worked closely with informal schools in Kenya. Our current base in Kibera has allowed us to work with, and in such schools thus giving us a good feel of what their needs are.
Informal schools do not have the basic facilities that formal schools have, for example separation of the classrooms, adequate number of classrooms and textbooks such that as many as fiftty students share a single textbook. The children are also unable to do their homework or any extra reading at night because of lack of electricity in their homes. The only other time that they can work is until the rest of the family is asleep where they will have working space.
These are some of the challenges that parents are facing trying to give their children quality education. This is where AHCP intervenes, to transform their new offices into a learning and resource library centre for students of informal schools.
This program is aimed at increasing literacy among children of Kibera. The library is safe, accessible and acts as a centre for the marginalized children to broaden their knowledge and therefore empowering them. Interactive learning is as well part of the program and is aimed at boosting confidence in the children, and in the process, increasing their thirst for knowledge.
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