Destiny Garden School is being established at Mtongwe -
one of the poorest suburbs of Mombasa, on Kenya’s coast.
It currently has just over 200 children and 8 qualified teachers.
More than half of the children are orphans and at least a quarter of them are HIV positive. Families of the children will mostly struggle to find regular work in an area where jobs are scarce. The charity would never stop a child from attending the school but the situation does increase the burden on resources.
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The main aims of the school are:
- * Providing all the children with a good standard of education
- * Bringing out the full potential of each and every child
- * Ensuring all children receive a good meal during the school day
- * Offering educational programmes on HIV/AIDS and also care for those already infected by HIV/AIDS
- * Offering training and counselling to the orphaned children
Destiny Garden School comes under the umbrella of Mabadiliko Care International, a Kenyan charity founded in 2004.
Jacob Boaz is the Founder and Director of Destiny Garden School and he manages all the School affairs. He also coordinates the fund raising and looks after all the volunteers. Jacob established another school in a different area of Mombasa which provided him with valuable experience to get Destiny Garden School up and running – his big dream is to help the children in this very poor district of Mombasa. Having himself been brought up in this area and having had the opportunity of a good education, Jacob strongly believes that education is the way out of poverty. Jacob’s Vision
Lunch - Destiny Garden School provides a cooked lunch for all the children each day. It is not uncommon for families to go without food and for many of the children the lunch they receive at the School is their only proper meal of the day. Destiny also want to be able to provide a quality snack during the morning break. 
The School’s Development to Date
Destiny Garden School opened in May 2009
with 7 classrooms in this rented building.
With the help of donations from Germany, the school bought a plot of land adjacent to the rented buildings.
Trees were planted on this land and it is used for growing crops to help feed the children at lunch time. There is a neaby borehole and water is pulled up from this on a 60 metre rope for irrigation.
June 2009 - the first buiding to go up was the kitchen.
Classes at Destiny Garden School were conducted on mats - there were no chairs, desks or blackboards.
July 2009, Jacky Price, who undertook voluntary work at the school for 6 months, bought desks and chairs for the children, and provided all 7 classrooms with blackboards.
Jacky, also bought the children school uniforms which were designed by Masikah and made by one the the parents.
Pictured left to right - Jacky, Masikah, Julius and Jacob
September 2009, with donations from a UK the office and storage block was started
work in progress
Friends of Judy Roper in the UK raised funds at her ’Open House’ fundraising event on 22 August 2009. These funds enables the school to buy sports equipment and to build the new office and storage block, which was completed in October 2009.
In March 2010 a donation was recieved from Dr George which enabled a Kindertgarten Block to be built.
Click this link to see a report of Dr George’s visit.
In May 2010 donations were recieved from Australia and the UK to build the 4 primary Classes.
The primary class building still needs doors, windows and a ceiling, but the classes were able to vacate the rented rooms and move in on Monday 14 June 2010. Further funds are required to complete the building.
Before and After - the school in June 2009
The school in June 2010 - photo to come