Kenya Lpus Leluai School

Lpus Lelaui School is in Westgate Community Conservancy in northern Kenya. It’s a very rural school, it already had some school buildings when we first visited it in 2008, but it didn’t have much more than that.

Over the years, many of you have helped them. In 2009, some of you very generously helped us to install an entire school solar lighting system, which meant so much to them, then when some of you heard that elephants were chasing children in the school grounds, you generously sponsored the construction of an electric fence around the school to keep them safe. Many of you have also helped us donate other things they have asked for like desks, school books, stationary, sanitary towels for girls, mirrors, food supplies, gutters, and a water collection tank. In 2012, you also helped a teacher Patrick start extra-curricular wildlife clubs, scouts, and music competitions at the school, some of which continue today, even after Patrick was sadly killed by a crocodile when he was rescuing a child from a river during a flood.

In 2021, when an elephant had broken through the fence, we repaired this and installed new batteries to re-electrify it.

Then in 2022, after 13 years, the solar lights system needed repairs, and all the boarding students were having to huddle in one classroom to do their homework at night. So some more of you wonderful people generously donated to repair it and add extra security lights to the outside!

Now they have working lights throughout the school again, and they have more security lights outside. They are extremely grateful and told us that they can study effectively and sleep well because the lights and electric fence keep them safe from the wildlife they live alongside.

In 2022, some of you also generously supported them with four new biodigester toilets to help solve their chronic toilet shortage and textbooks and extra-curricular books to restock their library, which has given them lots of enjoyment and benefited their studies. They were the best-performing school in Samburu East in 2022!

To all of you who have contributed to this school, thank you; you are awesome. You have invested in these children who live alongside Westgate Community Conservancy’s wildlife, and they could not be more grateful!