MADRID, 7 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Euroforum company has collaborated with the Vipeika Foundation to finance the desks for the new classrooms at the Pilar Galarza School, located in Kilaya, an area of Kenya with a high poverty rate, on a mountain 1,750 meters high.
An average of 225 students per year study at this Kenyan school who live about 45 kilometers around the center, without there being any closer primary school. The students are between the ages of 7 and 12 and most of them are boys, although more and more girls are studying there.
With the aim of improving educational conditions, the center will be demolished in 2023 and a new building will be built with new, larger classrooms that will need equipment, such as desks, essential so that children can study with the comfort of sitting at a desk, according to says Euroforum in a statement.
The school is located in Kilaya, located within Pokot County, near the border with Uganda, on a mountain 1,750 meters high. It is a region where most of the schools are located in rural areas that are very remote and difficult to access.
Pokot has 500,000 inhabitants of which a quarter of the population is dedicated to agriculture. Of predominantly Muslim religion, marriage is allowed from the age of 15 for boys and from 11 for girls, which is why many of them drop out of school early.
The literacy rate in Kenya is 78% but in these remote areas, the percentage drops to 45%, mainly because children do not have schools close to their towns.
Euroforum has been developing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) actions and collaborating with the Vipeika Foundation for more than 10 years, through projects committed to early childhood education.