Litisha is very big village with 9 sub villages (known as Vitongoji in Swahili). This village has no nursery school, the children have to travel about 2 to 4 km to get to school in a nearest village.
It became very difficult for children less than 5 years to travel this distance and is unsafe for them. After a very successful permaculture programe in litisha village, the women of Magima sub village decided to start their own nursery school in their area.
The permaculture participants decided to contribute some maize so that they can have the nursery school. They requested that Hoja project organise a market for their maize, organise with the government, organise with teachers and help with the management.
The village owned the disused building, and we suggested to renovate the building by putting windows, doors, cement and painting. We also bought some books, table and chairs for a teacher.
The money from the maize was enough to do all these and everything was in place, and in June 2012 the class started. Now children of that area are walking 10 to 20 minutes to the school.
And they are getting very good education because is being overseen by the Hoja project. Currently there are 59 children at this centre.
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