ABOUT US

HELLO!!! We are the SSPJ students of Sts. Philip and James school located in St. James, N.Y.
We are helping Kenya’s education by sending text books to Kenya. We are trying to make their education better than it was because they don’t have the money to buy better books. In our computer class we are making a website to help to inform others. Our school is donating all of our unwanted text books to Kenya. The children learn with pen and paper and we would like to send books to them for a better education instead of wastefully throwing these textbooks out. We would really like it if you guys would help by sending books to our school.
Our whole class started to get involved with VIST, when our teacher Mr. Wagner talked to a college professor who knew a lot about the school. Our fifth grade class is making this blog in our computer class. Each group has an assignment. We are all writing about Kenya's culture, education, history, and about us.

Please help us donate as many books as we can. If you would like to help, then donate some books to us. We would mostly like math and science books. Please do not send History becase Kenya is a different country. Remember that they are a poor country, so please help us out. We will give all the books we can with one thousand dollars. Our teacher is helping us 5th graders to learn how wealthy our country is and how some country’s are not as fortunate as we are. If you have time to donate to us we can't thank you enough. Lets make the world a better place one step at a time!!! Thank you and have a very good day and we hope the kenyans do too.




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Merry Christmas V.I.S.T. !!!

Dear V.I.S.T. ,
As you probably know, Chirstmas is coming, and our fifth grade class hopes you have a wonderful Christmas! We hope you have put the textbooks we gave you to good use. They will hopefully make learning easier for you. We wish that you have food to eat and clean water to drink on this wonderful holiday! We also wish that you are safe during Christmas.

-Your Wikenya Family

Kenya's Radio

http://english.cri.cn/webcast/

Kenya's Pictures

Hi. I am Jameson and I am the captain of the picture group with Emmet, Lauren and Kaitlin. We are finding pictures of kenya's landforms, clothes, important people, and more.




Mwai Kabiki is the president of Kenya

This is a person from a tribe called the Kikuyu.

This is Kenya's capital city, Nairobi.

The elephant is the national animal of Kenya.

The giraffe is also a popular animal in Kenya.

This is the massiai lion. It is a very big part of the massiai's.

This is leopard beach. It is a big tourist attraction.

This is dhows-lamu-kenya. It is also a good tourist attraction.

Podcasts

Hello, my name is Meaghan. I am in the podcast group with Cailey, Carly, and Abigail. We are going to be podcasting every week. In our podcasts, we will be informing you about what the different groups are and what they are doing. We will also be interviewing our homeroom teacher, Mr. Wagner and our computer teacher, Mr. Haines.

Our class is delighted to send textbooks to Kenya to help them with their low literacy rate. Please contribute. (check out our fundraisers at Wikenya.Jottit.com)

- Your Wikenya Family
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Kenya's Education

Introduction

Hi! This is Natalie, Taylor, and Isabella. For some you who don't know about Kenya's education, we will tell you about it. Kenya's education is not the greatest. Not everyone in Kenya goes to school, and not everyone who does has a good education.

Statistics

The CIA World Factbook claims that the children at the age of 15 years old, a total of 85.1%, can read, and write. Males are at a slightly higher rate than females. This estimate was taken in the year 2003.

Education is free, and compulsory for eight years. Children begin to attend school when they are five or six years old. They spend eight years at primary school, four years at secondary school, and four years at the university. In 1995, there were 5,544,998 primary students and 181,975 teachers. The student-teacher ratio is 30 to 1. In most secondary schools, there are 632,388 and 41,484 teachers.

Literacy rates

There are four main universities in Kenya. One is theKenyatta University that was founded in 1972. It is located in Nairobi. The University of Nairobi was founded in 1956. It was founded as the Royal Technical College of East Africa. The Moi University was founded in 1984. It was founded at Eldoret. The Egerton University is located in Njoro. It was founded in 1939. The language in all the universities is English. There were 4,392 teaching staff and 35,421 students attending these universities, and institutions in 1991.
Source:http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Africa/Kenya-EDUCATION.html

Hello

Hello, our class was delighted to help VIST Academy, a school in Kenya. The 5th grade is trying to create fundraisers to raise money to ship books off to Kenya. We all wish to help with as much as we can to help the kenyans.