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pupils of mburi primary school.
Rev David Holloway and his wife Joy Holloway during the launching of the school.
EDUCATION.
JANE MUGAMBI 24TH FEB 2010.
Jesmond trust of Newcastle united kingdom yesterday launched a 15 million project that will benefit people in Mburi village of Kirinyaga east district.

The project targets a public school that is the only one in the division,public hall and a dispensary aimed at uplifting the sleepy village.

Speaking during the launch of the mburi christian primary school project, Rev David Holloway chairman of the Jesmond trust said that the best thing that an African child could get at this time is education that will improve lives in future.

He said that most villages have illiterate children and while they grow up have no basic skills of perfomance in future in the changing world.

He said that development of an area starts with the youth and if they do not have education cannot grow being strong and courageous to provide basics even needed by the families or community.

He insisted that with the launch of such schools in the country, there will be protection of environment from the children who grow up having education and will extend to the community.

He said that this takes a culture of excellence from the children who even improve values in an area adding that with education they change peoples behaviour pointing out a high crime rate from idle youth.

Speaking during the function the retired Anglican Archbishop David Gitari said with such public schools in the area children will develop intellectually, pyhsically and spiritually for most children who could not afford to enroll in the private schools.

He said this will reduce the rate of illiteracy in an area that has been left out in the happenings of the country and urged the Jesmond trust group to launch more education centres in remote areas of the country where people are misled by their leaders for their own gain.
The chairman Abel Muriithi, the school has 185 pupil from standard one to standard five and has five teachers from the teacher service commission.

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