Oloowang Campus Expansion & Improvements

The valley community of Oloowang is home to two of The Kilgoris Project’s ten schools: Oloowang Preschool (opened in 2006) and Oloowang Primary School (opened in 2017). Five teachers shepherd students ranging from two-year-olds to second graders. For more than a decade, the preschool prepared students for success in primary school while providing two daily meals, clean water, and medical care.

We are honored to continue our partnership with The Kilgoris Project. The Kilgoris Project built out campus infrastructure to support the school’s expansion, which has enabled the campus to expand their enrollment and teach up through 3rd grade. This upgrade required additional classrooms, an upgraded kitchen, rainwater collection systems, and permanent latrines and hand washing stations. Three additional classrooms house the growing number of students and one of the existing classrooms now serves as a school office, giving the teachers a much-needed work, meeting, and storage space.

The addition of grades 1-3 between allows students to continue to learn and thrive until they are older and better able to walk the distance to the nearest government school. Updating and expanding the campus has drawn community into the school in a new way. Even parents who care little about education see the value in their children getting two meals a day, and the expanded kitchen allows The Kilgoris Project to serve larger, more nutritious meals to their students. New classrooms will also incentivize parents to bring and keep their young children in school.