6 Schools
6000 Children impacted.
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690 children in the Daily Lunch Program
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64 recipients of our Scholarship Program
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42 Special Needs Children impacted
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3 Modern Kitchens constructed
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3 Toilet Blocks constructed
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1 Classrooms Block Constructed
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3 schools with Rain Water Harvesting tanks built
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1 Special Needs Children Wing constructed and furnished
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drops in local absenteeism rates
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garden built
​​Ultimately, our dream is to create strong communities with the families of these very school children finding jobs and careers with the school as the center of economic growth.
Basic Needs
The daily lunch programme has been benefiting 690 pupils from needy families. Each school day, the needy school children are provided with porridge and an egg at 10 am. During lunch, the children are given a plate of rice with beans or ndengu (green grams) and a fruit. ​
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Every Child Counts offers this lunch programme to students at:
The Daily Lunch Programme
Kenya is a middle-income economy with pockets of poverty across the country. Every Child Counts (ECC) has an opportunity to make a change in the lives of many children within the schools they are already working with for the ongoing projects.
Every Child Counts plans to offer scholarships to students as they move to high school from:
Scholarship Program
Infrastructure Improvements
​The schools needed a kitchen to prepare meals. So, together with the school committee, we planned to construct a modern kitchen. Energy-efficient cooking systems called jikos conserve heat and use much less fuel wood to prepare meals for large groups. The school's newly built kitchen was fitted with jikos. The local team completed the kitchen project in Waitua Primary School in February 2020. The kitchen has become a model for other schools in the area.
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Every Child Counts has constructed these kicthens at:
Construction of a Modern Kitchen
Classrooms, the sanctuaries of growth and learning, should hold the potential to nurture young minds. However, in these areas, the promise of education is stifled by inadequate infrastructure. Crumbling buildings, insufficient seating, broken desks and a lack of proper amenities hamper the learning process and leave children bereft of the conducive environment they deserve.​
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Every Child Counts completed the construction of a new classroom in July 2024 at:
Classroom Construction​
Another problem students are facing at school is having limited toilet blocks and the students need to queue up to use the bathrooms. They end up spending a lot of time outside the classroom to use the toilet. With the new toilet blocks Every Child Counts constructed, there are sinks outside the toilets so the students are able to wash hands after getting out of the toilet. The availability of sinks for hand washing, sufficient toilets, and the elimination of congestion, particularly for the girls will have positive impact on their learning.​​
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Every Child Counts has built toilets at:​
Construction of a Toilet Block
In partnership with ECC, the Kanjeru Primary School constructing a Special Needs Children's classroom block in 2022. This block, which has become the talk of the town because of its splendid construction quality, houses the school's over thirty special needs students. It comes with a dormitory, which is helpful for the students, especially in the afternoons for napping. This important Special Needs Children Classrooms Block was fully furnished in 2024.
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Special Needs Children Classroom Block​
Community Empowerment
Construction of Rain Water Harvesting Tanks
During the COVID-19 pandemic 2020, the Kenyan government required all schools to have running water for hand washing and cleaning to slow the spread of coronavirus. St Anne School needed to have adequate water supply. The school requested that ECC provide plastic tanks so that they could harvest water from the rooftops of buildings in the school and increase their water storage capacity. Every Child Counts provided five plastic tanks to Waitua. This support came in handy. The school was able to cope with the challenges of the pandemic.​​
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Every Child Counts has build these tanks at:
