KenGen PLC, through the KenGen Foundation, donated Kshs. 1,000,000 to Bahari Girls Secondary School, Kilifi County, for the construction of a dining hall on 3 December to address the challenge of increased students enrollment in the institution.
Mr. Alfred Oseko, KenGen’s Legal Manager and the Foundation’s Trustee, and the KenGen Foundation’s Managing Trustee, Mr. Anthony Igecha, handed over the cheque at Bahari Girls, saying the support was part of the Company’s Corporate Social Investment aimed at supporting community educational needs and contributing to the Sustainable Development Agenda 4.
Receiving the donation, Bahari Girls Secondary School Principal Mrs. Prisca Mgute said the support would address the increased student capacity in the school. She said that the current dining hall had been converted into a dorm to accommodate some of the extra students.
Bahari Secondary School is a National Girls Boarding school established in 1991 with an initial student population of 80 students. This has so far grown to the current number of 1,238. It has progressively improved in academics from a mean score of 3 in 1994 up to a mean score of 7 in 2020.
Having been elevated to a national school in 2014, and with the government’s policy of 100% transition from primary to secondary school, the available infrastructure became inadequate. However, through well-wishers and other corporate efforts, a number of developmnets have taken place including the putting up of two extra dormitories and four classrooms in 2019. A perimeter fence was added a few years later to enhance to school’s security.
The KenGen Foundation has been actively involved in enhancing selected schools in terms of infrastructure development, with the latest beneficiaries being Thua Primary School in Kitui County and Kwa Wanzilu Secondary School, Machakos County. Thua Primary boasts of a new perimeter fence, while Kwa Wanzilu Secondary has a new classroom.
Mr. Oseko urged the current students sitting their K.C.S.E to focus and work hard and wished them the best in the final examinations.
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–Ernest Nyamasyo, Communication Officer