University don champion noble cause to support remote Lanakakya Ivuuni Primary in Kitui County

A University of Nairobi lecturer is spearheading a humanitarian cause for the construction of modern school facilities mainly classrooms, administration blocks and toilets for a neglected remote public school in Kitui County.

For close to 30 years now, Lanakakya Ivuuni Primary School located within Ndooa-Mutitu in Kitui County that is tucked deep inside a far flung rural village in Kutui county is grappling give a facelift to the dilapidated school infrastructure of mud classrooms save for recent initiative by Dr. Patrick Maluki who donated 10 acres of land for construction of modern school infrastructure.

Despite the donation by the chairman of the Department of Diplomacy and International Studies (DDIS) at the University of Nairobi, only a handful of well-wishers have yielded to the plea to put up two blocks of classrooms.

The dire situation is coupled by lack of water especially during this prolonged dry period, lack of road infrastructure and other of other basic amenities that has condemned young people to poverty due to high rate of school dropout.

However, speaking to The Informer Media Group, Maluki said he is determined to reverse this trend and appealed to well-wishers, donor agencies and government institutions to support the initiative he mooted eight years ago in 2015.

“I conceived this project in 2015 after seeing the need to provide quality, affordable education to the children from this village. One of the challenges I faced initially was the community by-in. At that time, people didn’t believe it was possible. They asked where do we get money? Even money to buy food, people don’t have food. So it was seen as an impossibility This is a place where even getting a thousand bob is a miracle.” Maluki observed.

While reiterating Maluki’s sentiments, Ivuuni Primary School head teacher Alfred Muriithi appealed for a permanent source of water for the school like drilling of a borehole.

“This area is very dry and doesn’t have enough water. With that kind of dryness, the place is unique and has its own unique problems. If it was possible, that we had our own water within our own compound, that would give us a very bright future because if we got a boarding wing or a boarding section, we would succeed. But now I can’t even start a boarding section without water. We really need a permanent source of water for Ivuuni Primary School.

In what possess a major challenge in the roll out and implementation of the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC), the area which has only one school within a radius of over 20 kilometers has no electricity connection to enable the pupils use the would be computers of other requisite learning gadgets.

“We now believe this is possible and we are calling for more support.” Maluki added.