Education For All
GRACE Initiative supports and works towards all levels of education, from primary education to skilled workers’ apprenticeships, university, and further education at home and abroad.
GRACE Initiative runs a primary and junior secondary school – Greater GRACE Academic Center which is a co-ed day school with a population of about 200 students. The school focuses on ensuring the vulnerable children within the community get an opportunity to get affordable quality education and basic health care.
GRACE runs a school feeding program that ensures that the children not only acquire learning at the school but also enjoy a hot nutritious breakfast and lunch.
In addition, GRACE endeavors to provide scholarships for orphans and vulnerable children to ensure that they successfully complete their primary education. GRACE also seeks scholarships from other institutions to support students joining high school.
Greater GRACE Academic Centre
The Greater GRACE Academic Centre was started in 2011 to provide access to quality education to all qualifying children regardless of their family’s ability to pay tuition. The school has a population of 200 learners from pre-school to junior school. Barriers that the GRACE Initiative is addressing in education include:
◊ Low completion rates
◊ Access to quality education ◊ Low self-esteem.
◊ Equitable distribution of resources between rural versus urban schools or private schools
◊ Low uptake of STEM related subjects and careers.
Science, Technology, Engineering, And Mathematics (STEM)
We are in the process of establishing an Innovation center at the school where our long-term goal is to promote STEM and nurture our learners’ abilities.
So far, our learners are benefiting from this program by undertaking regular computer classes and STEM-related projects which are in line with the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC).
The program has benefited over 3000 learners and teachers directly and indirectly.
Mentorship
Besides providing education we are also building on an active mentorship program. The main aim is to nurture holistic learners and to offer them life skills.
Small Class Size
A manageable class size has given the teaching staff ease in delivery.
Low Teacher-Pupil Ratios.
We abide by the Ministry of Education guidelines on the teacher-learner ratio to ensure interaction between learners and the teachers is maximized and learners get the attention desired attention.
Scholarships For Vulnerable Learners.
We offer scholarships to vulnerable and deserving learners to enable them to complete their primary school studies by giving them a chance to access quality education.