BOSCO BOYS

In our main centre in Kuwinda we are running a fully registered, private Primary School. In the school year 2009 we are teaching a total of 295 students. Apart from the borders, the school is open to more than 150 day scholars from the surrounding areas, for example the nearby Kuwinda Slum. The day scholars have the possibility to study in our school at a very low cost.
A School Feeding programme was introduced in 2008. We provide them with breakfast and lunch. This has been a great support in the learning process as many of the children come to school without having a meal and this has helped in reducing school dropout and absenteeism.

    Every year 30 – 40 children complete their primary education and write KCPE exams. For those who performed well are send to Secondary Schools and others are encouraged to go to a technical school.

In the centre we have a workshop with the trades of carpentry, welding, motor vehicle mechanic, screen printing, tailoring, cobbler and sculpture making. Few of the Bosco Boys and girls who come from outside learn some of these trades. We also use this workshop not only for training but also as an income generating project. We take orders from customers and do jobs for them and receive payments for the jobs done. Those boys and girls who finish the informal training are given a certificate from the centre or are recommended to proceed with their formal vocational training at our sister institutes in Don Bosco Boys' Town - Karen or Don Bosco Training Centre -  Makuyu.

At Bosco Boys Kuwinda we have a rather good farm. The boys get training in farming activities. We have a poultry unit with broilers and layers. We also have geese, turkeys and ducks. In addition we keep rabbits, cows, sheep and pigs. Eggs and chicken meet are sold from the farm to support the project to some degree. The entire milk is consumed in the community. In 2004, The Jasani Memorial Trust assisted us to set up a bio-gas plant using the cow dung. In the vegetable farm we produce the common vegetables.

From the centre 18 boys were admitted in a public primary school of St. Mary's, Karen. The boys are taken to school in the morning by our school bus. However in the evening the boys walk back from the school.

Social work in the slum of Kuwinda
Our priests and candidates to priesthood are involved in many social service programmes in the slum of Kuwinda which is very close to us. Besides teaching religion and meeting their spiritual needs, we also look for ways and means of assisting these less fortunate ones in their health and recreational needs. We also conduct a nursery school for the children of the slum. About 35 children attend this nursery school.