| dc.description.abstract | This study on the School Feeding Programmes in Informal Schools: An assessment of their effectiveness among orphans and vulnerable children in Kibera slums, Nairobi County. The main objective of the study was on understanding the kind of support given to OVCs and to find out factors that have contributed to the running of the School Feeding Programme (SFP) in the informal schools and tried to assess their effects on the Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVCs) in Kibera slums.Nairobi Kenya.
Literature review revealed that there are a few formal public schools within the environs of Kibera slums and that majority of the pupils enrolled in these informal schools were oves with no choice to attending public schools lest they miss out. The rate of OVCs has tremendously gone high due to the HIV-AIDS pandemic. The review further revealed that due to the growing.numbers, the community kinship system can no longer take good care of the OVCs hence communities and well wishers have come together to find ways of caring and supporting children. As a result many community initiatives have come up and continue to come up to address the felt needs on the ground.
Methods of data collection included structured and unstructured questionnaires, Key informant guides, focus group discussion guides and direct observation check list. It was obtained from the Kibera slums residents including SFP beneficiaries thus OVCs between the age of 8 to 16 years old who had been enrolled in informal school for at least the past two years, the care givers, opinion leaders, World Food Programme (WFP) and !Feed The Chldren ( FTC) agency workers, the managers and directors of different CBOs and NGOs as well as the City Council of Nairobi Municipal Education Officer of Langata District were involved in the generation of data. The study was a qualitative while a combination of data collection methods and tools applied. Simple descriptive tables, bar graphs, pictures, narrative reports were mainly used to describe the data obtained while descriptive and analytical comparisons were used to analyze the data The study findings revealed that the respondents were facing various challenges in their pursuit to primary education. There were indicators to point at high retention levels through the provision of SFP as well as take home rations that were being issued to the 'index children'.
The study also found out that there were good school performances of the OVCs through the SFP that ultimately reflected in their end term exams as well as their school aggregate mean scores in the national primary certificates since inception in the year 2005 by the major funders WFP/FfC. The study also found out that there were high degrees of community participation towards the SFPs in the non formal schools. Major recommendations like the Ministry of education to consider the informal and nonformal schools in the slums and integrate them in the national sector, specifically OVC candidates sitting KCPE to be grouped with other ASAL areas, deployment of qualified teachers, need to offer breakfast to the OVCs and a study to be done on how many OVCs upon completion of their primary certificate fail to proceed with their education to High school among others. | en_US |
