EDUCATION – CIVICOM AID

SDG 4 · Quality Education

Our work

1. 1. Expanding Access to Education

Community Access to Education Program

In remote dry regions, high-rainfall regions, and slum regions in Kenya and Uganda, too many children and young people from households in extreme poverty are kept out of school.

Through Civicom Aid’s Community Education Access Program, out-of-school children and youth return to class and learn. We open doors to learning through three pillars.

Pillar 1: Building Safe Schools

Support that gives children classrooms, safe toilets, and water at school.

Pillar 2: Keeping Learners in School

Support that gives children school supplies and young people scholarships, so they can stay in class.

Pillar 3: Training Youth for Work

Support that gives out-of-school youth STEM skills, free online degree courses, and a local youth hub.

Kyani Nyanza Primary School (Uganda)

In 1995, parents in a remote Ugandan village started a school where none existed. Classes began under a tree, with ten pupils taught by one teacher — a young man who had left secondary school himself because his family could not afford the fees. By 1999, enrolment had reached 230 pupils, taught by just two untrained teachers.

Today, Kyani Nyanza teaches over 2,500 pupils a year, yet little has changed since those early days. There are no classrooms, so pupils sit under trees in the sun, rain, and wind. There are no toilets, so pupils use the bush instead — a problem that hits girls hardest, many suffering painful urinary tract infections. There is no safe water, so pupils walk 15 kilometres a day to fetch water that often makes them sick. Most write on the bare floor, without desks or basic supplies.

If nothing changes, more pupils will drop out, more girls will fall ill and miss school, and a generation will lose the skills they need to lead their community.

Civicom Aid is raising funds to build 18 classrooms, 22 toilets, and 1 safe water point — removing the biggest risks pupils face today. You can help by donating, fundraising, writing grants, or telling your network about children studying, sitting, and writing on floor.

Our goal: to give every one of Kyani Nyanza's 2,500 pupils a classroom, a toilet, and clean water by 2030.

Likoni Youth Hub

Likoni is home to over 80,000 young people, many facing unemployment, idleness, and little access to skills training. Most come from remote rural and dryland villages with no marketable skills, leaving them stuck in low-paying casual work or struggling small businesses that rarely lift them out of poverty. Without support, many drift further from stable, dignified work each year, and some fall into harmful habits simply out of boredom and a lack of purpose.

If nothing changes, poverty will deepen and hope will continue to fade for an entire generation of Likoni's youth, their potential never put to use.

Young people need a friendly local computer hub offering digital skills training and links to global opportunity. Likoni Youth Hub is doing exactly that. We train youth in practical STEM skills and connect them to free remote BYU degree courses, opening doors that were once firmly closed to them. Every young person who walks through our doors leaves with new confidence and a clearer path forward. You can help by donating computers, fundraising, writing grants, or telling your network about out of school youth.

Our goal: from 80 employed youth today to 5,000 working in digital jobs by 2035.

Joyland School

Thirty-three children, aged three to six, learn in a classroom with no proper facilities. They sit on the dusty floor and bend low to write, which leaves their necks and chests sore by the end of each day. Without desks or a decent space to learn in, these young children are already at a disadvantage before their education has truly begun — and their parents have nowhere else to turn.

If nothing changes, these children will drop out, and their reading and writing skills will fail to develop as they should, setting them back for years to come and narrowing their chances later in life.

This is where Civicom Aid steps in. The classroom is rundown, dirty, and has no desks. We are fundraising to renovate it and add proper desks, so children can learn in comfort, safety, and dignity, as every child deserves. Every shilling raised brings these children closer to the classroom they need. You can help by donating funds, fundraising, writing grants, or telling your network about nursery children who need help.

Our goal: from 33 children today to 120 enrolled by the end of 2028, welcoming back 50 dropouts and adding 40 new places each to daycare, PP1, and PP2.

Children School Supplies

Pupils in primary school struggle to start and stay in class without the basic supplies they need to learn. Over 20,000 children lack these supplies and cannot attend school confidently or keep up with their peers. Many are forced to write on the bare floor using whatever scraps of paper they can find, while others simply stop attending school altogether, their education cut short before it has properly begun.

If nothing changes, children will fail their exams, lose confidence, and risk dropping out of school for good, cutting short futures that could otherwise flourish.

Many parents cannot afford notebooks, pens, pencils, bags, uniforms, or shoes for their children. We buy and distribute supply kits each year to pupils who write on the floor, and we help welcome back children who have already dropped out of school. A simple kit can be the difference between a child staying in school or leaving it behind for good. You can help by donating, fundraising, writing grants, collecting supplies, or telling your network about school who write on floor due to lack of school supplies.

Our goal: from current numbers to welcoming back 10,000 more children by 2035, giving every one of them the basic tools they need to learn.