Malek Girls High School Transformed From Male Secondary School.

S2070008Malek Girls High school is currently a public mixed day school but will evolve into a girls boarding school by the year 2015. It is comprised of 9 teachers, 6 employed by the Teachers Service Commission and 3 employed by the Board of Governors. There are 137 girls and 63 boys, 6 classrooms, 5 latrines and 1 temporary kitchen. Students also have school clubs like the Wildlife Club, Young Farmers, Scouts Club and a Science Congress.  

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A pure girls class.

The community, together with the school fraternity, saw the need to change this school to a girls school. There are already numerous boys schools in the area and the girls have major difficulties walking the long distances to school .

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Students taking tea in the field due to the lack of a school dining hall.

The Malek girls would like to thank the community surrounding the school and the Kenyan Government for moving ahead with this proposition.

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A mixed girls and boys class.

The phasing out of boys began in 2012 so that currently  form one (grade 9) and form two (grade 10) classes are currently purely girls. S2070039

The school has challenges that need to be addressed  to ensure structual and academic growth. For example, there is no dining hall forcing students to have their meals in long grass fields with insects flying into their’ food as they eat.

The school also does not have energy saving jikos (cook stoves) that can speed up the cooking of the students’ food and lower the costs of firewood.

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The students would love to have a set of goal posts for football matches.

There is also no permanent school kitchen.

The 2013 form four agriculture students have been working on a sorghum growing project for their final exam at the end of the year.

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