'Non-Formal' Schools Aim to Fill Need in Kenya's Slums

This is the VOA Special English Development Report, of voaspecialenglish.com In two thousand three, the Kenyan government established a program of free primary education for all children. But there are not enough public schools for all children living in the crowded slums of Nairobi. Instead, visit some of these children, what are known as non-formal or informal schools. These are supported by communities, religious groups and other organizations. Informal schools use the nationalCurriculum in public schools. But they work mostly with limited resources and without trained teachers. Education activists say, the Ministry of Education rarely inspected their quality of teaching, lesson notes or records examined. They say the presence of informal schools means that Kenya has two levels of the education-one for children from the slums, one for children from better conditions. Activists say Kenya has at least einstausendsechshundert these non-formal schools. SusanMunuhe is an Education Ministry official. She says only about a hundred informal schools across the country get money for materials under the free primary education program. She says a slum in Nairobi, Mathari, has only three public elementary schools in the area. This can serve two thousand children in the majority. But she says the Mathari slum alone has more than three hundred thousand children of school age. Diana Atieno Tujuh volunteers as a teacher at Saint Christine's Community Center...



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