Operation Come To School Project

Supported by the Government of Kenya, this unique partnership set out to bring 40,000 out of school children in Nairobi County back to school and retain them. To ensure that the 40,000 OOSC ( 50% girls) were enrolled and retained in school, WERK:

(i) Built the capacity of /sensitized the community, education officials at both national and county level, BOMs and the children themselves to mount vigorous and sustained enrollment and attendance drives;
(ii) Distributed back to school kits for the needy children to facilitate school enrollment;
(iii) Availed partial scholarships for selected children;
(iv) Improved the school sanitation condition by adopting UNICEF wash strategy to support school hygiene and boost attendance especially for girls;
(vi) Improved the skills of the stakeholders in child friendly standards model to enhance retention;
(vii) Developed county-level systems (including county attendance/enrolment drive strategy and documenting county level best practices in enrolment drives); and
(viii) Empowered the members of the Association of Complementary Schools of Kenya to aid registration of their member schools by Ministry of Education to access Free Primary Education fund.