Monthly Report July

Written by Teacher Margaret

Jambo y'all. It's yet another end of month which would have been second term mid term in the normal school calendar in Kenya. Unfortunately it's not due to the Corona virus. We are waiting for a government directive on measures to take for schools to re open. We are set to reopen gradually but we even don't know when that will be. Right now Nairobi is reporting the highest number of positive cases since Corona came. Yesterday Nairobi alone had over 100 new cases and this is an indication that schools might not open soon. 

The closure of schools has denied our vulnerable families the daily school meals that we had been providing. As we all know that food had been the only food some kids get due to poverty. Right now families have to depend on handouts from wellwishers like me and you for survival. We at Happy Day have been very lucky because we have you our friends and supporters during this pandemic. We have been getting foodstuffs,soap and toiletries twice a month and we are very grateful. May each one of you be blessed. We are forever grateful. We have also allowed families that live near the school to get free water from our storage. Until schools get back to normal or we get a new normal, food will continue to be a big challenge to the families. Most parents were laid off from work immediately Corona arrived and so they don't have any form of income. Most of them were casual labourers and so the work from home does not apply to them.

We will continue updating about any new developments in the education sector which might have new requirements for the reopening of schools.


Our June/ July budget is as follows :

Salaries........ 80000 

Insurance......18000 

Water..............3000 

Food............ 62000 

Liquid soap.... 3500 

TOTAL...... 166500

In addition to this, we have given the staff half salary earlier i June and we also distributed food for KSh 62000 mid June.

We don't know how long we can keep this up. We should be able to deliver food in mid July, but then we have to get support from YOU to manage the 1. of august expences. We keep hoping that people will continue to support extra. 

Thank you!!