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Loldia Primary School Trust : Board of Trustees
meeting: 16.1.17. 3pm
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Present:
Kennedy Kariuki (HT: chair), James Ndinguri
(senior teacher), Wanja-Gitura Arentz
(Secretary, LPS Board ), Ben Arentz (Technical advisor) Gill
Marshal-Andrews (Secretary TAS UK), Diana Low, Samuel Gitaka, Helen Macharia,
Caroline Andisi, Hillary Isavua (by invitation)
Apologies:
None.
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Minutes
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Notes/Future Action
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WHEN?
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Ben
chaired the meeting. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.
Matters arising: Several issues in the last
minutes have their own slot on today’s agenda.
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Kennedy
Kariuki gave a report on the situation of teachers. As of this date, there
are 17 TSC teachers and 2 more promised. There are 21 non TSC teachers but in
total 42 teachers are needed to meet the Kenyan standard of 55 students per
clas per teacher) so there is a huge shortage of teachers, again. TAS has
stopped funding the salaries of 6 non TSC teachers per 2017. Gill stressed
that all the schools that TAS deals with in Kenya have set up a system for
contributions from parents to pay for additional teachers. A lively
discussion about contributions from parents and where the money ends up
evolved.
Bilashaka
farm has agreed to fund 5 teachers instead. One short off last year.
The
government, TSC, had made it clear that all teachers, trained or not, had to
be registered and given TSC numbers. This has made it even more difficult to
recruit teachers paid for by parents.
KK has
called a meeting of the board where these issues will be raised before
calling a parents' meeting to discuss the way forward.
Hillary
Isavua brought up his proposal of deducting school fees money from parents at
the source of their employment saying it had been known to work elsewhere.
Many ideas, suggestions were thrown around. Some problems could be foreseen
for example, how would the unemployed parents pay? In the end, it was agreed
that this would be brought up at the parents' meeting after the board had
met.
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TAS report: New funding received:
1.
Girls’ football boots
36,000 has been allocated to
purchasing 12 pairs of girls football boots.
A new donor has, through Diana,
given good quality boots which could be used by the school football team.
The 36,000 Shillings will now be
used to purchase uniforms for the team instead.
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3.1.
Boots done.
Uniform.
On going.
KK will
look into this.
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Classroom painting.
This has been completed and
done very well
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4.1.
The contractor has been paid in full.
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Done.
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New projects:
The
proposals put to TAS on the painting of the rest of the classrooms and the
floors had been done and the work gone to the same contractor to complete
over the Xmas holidays. This has been done and done well.
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5.1
The contractor has been paid in
full and thanked for going the extra mile of making thicker foundations for
the floors and also for building a barrier so the rain water would stop
flowing into the classrooms.He had also rectified the fascia boards and
gutters to prepare for future collection of water.
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Done
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2: Text
books
Bought,
delivered and already in use.
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Done.
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3: Water from kiosk to toilets.
The water tank and connection
was going to be put in by the World Bank.
It was suggested that the WB be
approached directly so that we could understand the situation.
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5.3
Ongoing. KK would get the number from
the local representative.
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4: More desks
The new desks had been made and delivered
but they are not yet in use as they need to dry out before they are
varnished. The parents and school management are very happy with the new
desks. More will be needed this year as the student population increases.
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4.4
KK will advise the board
accordingly.
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AOB.
The
300,000 Shillings from the Rotary Club UK had gone towards the desks
-WA & BA approached Fabian Philippart
from Fleur Africa for possible support for Loldia Primary School.
It was suggested that the 8 or
so firms that have workers whose children go to LPS should be approached for
funding of the school.
It was also reported that Shalima
farm installed a new water pump which may be used to also feed water to the
existing storage tanks on stilts. These could then be used to supply the
toilets with water as an alternative (or additional) to the World Bank
project. Water from Shalima was expected within days.
The money collected by Diana
through her Matembas and from the sales of clothes by the Dutch community,
totalling KSh 109,000 could either be used to purchase teacher desks, lockers
and chairs or alternatively to fund the one additional non TSC teacher
required.
Possible new projects:
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New
Metal Gate.
Diana
reported that the new metal gate was now in place and looking good thanks to
the Mara Farm for sponsoring the gate.
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BA & WA had approached Susan Karera the
secretary to The GP Resort about The Friends of GP. It was reported that she
had lost contact with the chairman and she would let us know if this was
still ongoing and was or could be a source of help to LPS.
It was agreed that Hillary
Isavua would formally be invited to join the board of trustees for LPS.
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Ongoing.
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Done
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Date of next meeting: To be
agreed once the parents had met and come up with suggestions of funding
teachers.
Time: 15:00 hrs
(3 pm) on March the 28th, in KK’s office.
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