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The goal of this project is to improve access to Early Childhood Education and development of underprivileged children in rural Kenya.

Social services available in Umala Village include a primary school with a total of 442 school children (160 are girls and 282 are boys). The school currently has a total of 8 classrooms all of which are temporary, made of mud walls with no windows doors, some nearly collapsing. The floors are usually dusty and the children have to smear cow dung every Friday in an attempt to maintain the status of the floors to a bearable situation. This can be worse, unhealthy and quite unfavorable learning condition for children under the age of six. There is only one pit latrine with two holes shared by the teachers and the student population. The school administration and the community fears the school being closed by the public health officials due to lack of proper latrines as has been done in a neighboring school. Ulawe Primary School has a shortage of school desks as well due to constant breakages without repairs. Basically the school is not in good condition in terms of the availability learning and reading materials and facilities/ infrastructure.
There are no health facilities in the village. People have to walk an average of 13 kilometers to the nearest health service facility in Ambira. During meetings with the village leaders it was explained that because of the long distances that people have to travel, most pregnant women prefer to deliver at home attended by untrained traditional midwifes who cannot diagnose and handle obstetric complications. Thus pregnant mothers run into great risk getting and suffering of excessive bleeding that may result in death or other various disabilities including fistula. Additionally, the household’s surrounding are not hygienically kept and because most diseases that occur in area are preventable at household level as most of them are water related diseases. For instance it was reported that only about 20% households have good usable pit latrines. The rest of the households have either latrines in very poor conditions or none at all.
UYCDP carried rapid needs assessment in the village in May 2008 to assess the community’s priorities. It found that the community’s priorities since 2005 have been a classroom for young children in Umala Village, which ranked first, followed by a dispensary, rehabilitation of water borehole, and income generating projects. It is on the basis of this that Ugenya Youth and Community Development Project puts forward this proposal.
Expected outputs
The expected outputs of this project include:
? One classroom/ECD centre constructed
? One Pit latrine of four holes (doors) constructed
? Project committee trained on project monitoring

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