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Adopt a village: Kenya life skills education (Learning World: S5E15, part 3/3)

1,019 views · Published 7 January 2015 · 3:01 · Indexed 14 November 2026

Channel: WISE Channel · 2015 · Education

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Seven hours from Nairobi, Kenya, in the remote Masai Mara “Free the Children” has adopted a holistic approach to education. The “Adopt a Village” programme identified five pillars of lasting and sustainable education needed to lift marginalized indigenous communities out of poverty. 

These five pillars combine a school project with health programmes, clean water, agriculture projects and food security. This ensures that the students of the school benefit in the long term and with them the whole community.

All of the schools are built near a clean source of water giving girls the time to attend classes and ensuring students and families to stay healthy by avoiding water borne illnesses. Health care programmes educate both, students and the community on health practices and include a mobile clinic that visits the village on a monthly basis.

Alternative income programmes such as honey production, animal husbandry or artisans projects targeted towards women ensure income for the families and food security.

Should life skills be taught to help us deal with the physical and emotional challenges that life throws at us? Watch an example from Liberia, where the Ebola epidemic caused schools to close down: http://youtu.be/dRH71LAN1K0. Life skills of a different kind is what Philippe Thibault teaches kids in Canadian schools, after having been bullied in school: http://youtu.be/tGQ4k3_X22c

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