Secondary Schools

A newly completed first classroom block, which has recently opened

Kenya

In Africa it is not unusual for only about 50% of Primary School leavers to go on to Secondary Education.

Secondary schools

There are some 4000 Secondary Schools in Kenya. Schools face many challenges, particularly when it comes to providing the pitches and equipment in order for young people to play sport. They do, though, have an excellent national Secondary School Sports Association. Every year the Association stages a National Ball Games Championship in which all the Secondary Schools participate. It is run on a knock-out basis at at Zonal, District and Provincial levels. When it comes to organising the National Final, Kenya is conveniently divided into eight Provinces, thus the provincial champions in girls football, volleyball, and netball and boys football and volleyball, all meet up for the annual week long event.

Young people are the focus of Alive & Kicking's initiatives, both as ball users and from the health education point of view. Alive & Kicking have donated over 5,000 balls to schools over the past two years and our HIV/AIDS awareness team have been invited to attend and counsel at the National Final.

The logistics of distributing balls to so many schools across the length and breadth of a country as large as Kenya is daunting, but Alive & Kicking has been greatly assisted in this area by the courier arm of G4S.

The Ministry of Education's own web site www.education.go.ke gives more information about the schools system in Kenya, and a search for the Kenya Secondary Schools Sports Association on Google gives the most recent reports on sports events.

Meet pupils from Goodwill Learners Centres, Nairobi

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