Nazarine Junior School
Vision
Educating for eternity.
Mission
Promote the mental, physical, and spiritual development of young and needy children through education.
History
Nazarine Junior School commenced in January 2014 as a family venture by my Wife Nazarine and I. With no children of our own, we had always envisioned the possibility of providing the much-needed help to children from poor families within our village. Growing up in rural Kenya ourselves, we have had a first-hand experience with the struggles that an innocent child with a poverty-stricken background in my village environment underwent in order to receive education, even at its basic level.
In 2014, this dream became a reality, and the Nazarine Junior School (NJS) was born. During that time, I worked as a Lecturer in one of Kenya’s public Universities, but could not afford to start the project independently. Consequently, my wife and I secured a bank loan with which we used to sign a ten-years lease on an old property that we renovated and partitioned into three pioneering kindergarten classrooms into which we admitted the first cohort of 8 children.
With one teacher and a cook, we commenced services, providing basic education and two meals/day, with hopes of sustaining the project through part of my salary as a University Lecturer. However, my flight abroad for further studies coupled with an increase in number of children, caused a great challenge in financing the project. Nonetheless, due to the sacrificial spirit of our teachers, who went without pay at times, we have been able to keep the project running to date.
