Mashimoni Primary School, found at the heart of Kibera Slum in Kenya, is committed to living the dream of Education for Sustainable Development through implementation of Eco-School initiatives (a programme coordinated by Kenya Organization for Environmental Education-KOEE-which is an auspice of Foundation of Environmental Education (FEE) in Kenya.

Mashimoni Primary School started at a nursery level in 1980. This was a community initiative to promote access to learning facilities within the informal settlement and to address slum challenges associated with lack of basic education such as poverty, malnutrition, unemployment and poor sanitary conditions among others.
The population of this school, in Mashimoni Village at the heart of Kibera Slum, is dynamic. Before the implementation of free primary education in Kenya, the population of teachers and pupils was recorded at 26 and 850 respectively. After implementation of free primary education, coupled with the impacts of post election violence that left one of the female teacher raped and school properties destroyed, the population has greatly declined. Currently, the school population comprises of 12 teachers (5 male and 7 female) and 249 pupils of which 51 percent are boys and 49 per cent are girls. Surprisingly 30 percent of the school pupil population are orphans.

It promotes access to basic education within the informal settlement thereby enhancing positive transformation among the young generation. Also, the school conducts school-community awareness campaign to address issues such as poverty, illiteracy and Hiv/Aids. With the support from KOEE, the school is installing a water kiosk project which will be used for school activities and part of it sold to the neighboring community. This together with the sukuma wiki project-about 50 seedlings planted in sack- is anticipated to improve the financial status of the school. The school has also excelled in greening and beautification programme of the school compound that is on its fourth phase currently.

Despite, the above success, Mashimoni Primary School is still facing numerous challenges. These include: inadequate physical facilities (classes and offices), existence of dilapidated structures, lack of learning and teaching materials, poor sanitations and insufficient fund to support school budget for teacher’s salary and to support the orphan pupils.

Mashimoni Primary School is a fountain of hope for many children within the Mashimoni village in the informal settlement and has contributed positive in the socio-economic development of the area. However, many challenges are threatening the sustainability of its benefits. It therefore calls for you and me to partner with the school to keep the fountain alive. The proposed project aims to construct a classroom for pupils between ages 3-7 years who are currently learning in deplorable conditions. The total cost of the project is estimated to be  5, 670 EUROS