VOA慢速英語:The Kibera School for girls in Nairobi, Kenya

[00:00.00]From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. [00:05.81]The Kibera School for girls in Nairobi, Kenya [00:09.19]offers free tuition, uniforms, books [00:13.04]and meals to girls who qualified. [00:15.89]The students are from pre-kindgarden through the fourth grade. [00:20.27]The school is the first [00:21.86]to offer free education for girls in the area. [00:25.20]It gets support from the surrounding community [00:28.49]by providing people with much-needed services. [00:32.50]The people of Kibera struggle to provide themselves [00:36.55]with food, shelter, clean water and good schools. [00:40.17]Girls face the additional problems of discrimination and violence. [00:44.95]When money for school is lacking, [00:47.19]parents in guardians usually withdraw their daughters [00:51.03]from school before their sons. [00:53.57]The Kibera School for girls works to help the community [00:58.09]understand the value of education. [01:01.18]Parents do not have to pay but a family member [01:04.97]must work at the school five weeks a year [01:07.86]as a way to support a child's education. [01:11.04]Girls are chosen based on the possibilities for their success [01:15.72]as students and on financial need. [01:18.61]Ten-year-old Joyce Achieng is one of these students. [01:22.54]She says a girl need more chances especially in kibera [01:27.66]where she has seen a lot of suffering. [01:30.71]"It is important because when they don't go to school [01:34.69]they will not achieve their goals [01:36.98]and their dreams will not come true. [01:39.17]They will not be what they want to be in the future." [01:41.61]And Anne Atieno Olwande is the school's headmisters. [01:46.17]She believes that girls like Joyce [01:48.61]have a better chance of overcoming the effect of being poor [01:52.74]by getting a quality education. [01:55.98]"It's one of my passions, [01:57.92]to make them realize that you didn't choose, [02:01.41]you didn't sent to be born where you born, [02:03.16]but you can choose to go where you want to be in future." [02:05.55]Helping women make better futures is why Kennedy Odede [02:10.22]established the school almost four years ago. [02:13.91]He says that growing up in kibera, [02:16.46]He hate it seeing that more boys than girls could go to school. [02:21.73]In 2004, Mr. Odede started a community movement [02:27.41]that later became the organization called "Shining Hope for Communities". [02:33.48]He bought a soccer ball with twenty cents he had earned from a factory job. [02:39.91]Through sports, he encouraged young people to discuss issues [02:45.14]facing them in their poor neighborhoods. [02:48.03]He wanted to make life better for girls as well as boys. [02:52.80]He said he began to see communities [02:55.99]through the eyes of his mother and sister. [02:59.12]But he worried some people might feel unhappy [03:02.61]that only students were getting a better life. [03:06.14]Mr. Odede wanted everyone in the community [03:10.33]to feel improvement in their lives. [03:13.96]Today, the school provides services [03:16.30]for everyone in the area, not just students. [03:20.28]People can stop by "Shining Hope for Communities" [03:24.42]to get clean water or use a clean bathroom. [03:28.41]They can sign up for computer training or visit the medical center. [03:33.75]Women suffering from violence at home can get advice and assistance. [03:40.27]The kibera school for girls has become a community center. [03:45.46]And that's the VOA Special English Education Report. [03:50.13]You can find more stories about education at 51voa.com. [03:56.91]I'm Milagros Ardin.

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