Minutes:
GILL MARSHALL-ANDREWS MEETING WITH ASAKO TRUSTEES 26
SEPTEMBER 2014 IN MWINGI
Present:
Farah Hussan – Headteacher
Kulisa Shora
Dirkicha, Asako Trustee (Parent)
Ismail
Solola, Chair SMC
Stephen Kameti,
TAS/KWS
Gill
Marshall-Andrews TAS secretary
School update:
School roll:
boys/girls
Nursery 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
74/50
25/20 25/15 35/13 20/22 22/10 25/12 20/22
13/5
Considering there were only 4 girls in the whole school 6
years ago this is an extraordinary turnaround.
The age of intake is still very variable.
There is a Right of Child Club run by the female teacher
Victoria. Club runs Tuesday and Friday
after school. 40 students attend
including 10 boys.
A big meeting is planned with the MCA Member of County Assembly Abdi El Galsa to discuss the school and its
challenges.
Latif have built a boys dormitory.
Life Ministry have built girls and boys washrooms and
provided sanitary towels.
TSC provide 6 teachers,
parents fund 1 Winifred at 7000,
and TAS funds 2 at 10,000 Rashid and Osman . One TSC teacher Abdullah lives in the village
Staff Houses
Maintenance Fund
5 TSC teachers occupy the houses – as follows:
Farah Hassan – TSC teacher 2 houses
Betha Geri (f)– TSC 1
house
Edward Mandera TSC 1 house
Victoria (f) TSC 1 house
Massi (f) TSC 1 house
There is only 3000 Kes in the account which has 3
signatures Ismail, HT and Juma. There should be much more. Each teacher is supposed to pay 800 per month
rent but this just isn’t happening.
We agreed to
review the funds in the account in January 2015. By then there should be 16,000 Kes (4 months at 4000 Kes) plus the 3000 there is
already in the account.
The houses are slowly becoming dilapidated and urgently
need repair.
Nursery
Number in nursery is 124.
They are looked after by Bara Hassan who is paid 7000Kes.
Pamba island nursery has 92 children 50 boys and 42 girls.
The county government is now responsible for nursery
education. Unclear if they are paying
the ‘caretakers’ who cannot be called nursery teachers because of a dispute
with national govt and the unions.
Water
MP has said CDF will replace the solar panel which services
the borehole and which was stolen. They
will fence it and pipe to community and dispensary.
The KWS windpump is working with good water but not in use
because it needs to be piped to the camp and the school. 70 pieces of pipe are needed and 20 have been
delivered.
WASH programme (Water Trust Fund) have provided 4 tanks
@10,000 litres. Some gutters have also
be provided but they are too small. WTF
will be asked to come back and remedy.
Stephen to follow up.
Dormitories
TAS has provisionally agreed to fund the girls dorm pending
house maintenance fund resolution.
Parents have promised to build the washrooms.
These buildings will start together.
Exams
KCPE mock exam results gave a mean score of 214. The target is 240. 18 students will sit the exam.
Solar
The panels on the classrooms used for evening study do not
work. Possibly a battery problem. KWS to sort this out.
Display board
Not up. Stephen to
progress.
School Management Committee
This is the governing body
of the school and consists of elected parents.
There have been no elections for 10 years. The AEO has been asked to assist school in
conducting new elections soon. The new
body will be called the Board of Governors.
Action by school
·
Sort out
staff houses maintenance fund and repair houses
·
Prepare to build washrooms
·
Prepare to build fence round the girls dormitory
·
Repair broken desks.
·
Arrange to mark exams in school clusters.
Next meeting
In January 2015 there will be a review of these actions and
only if the school has done its part will funding for the girls dormitory be
released.
