Abstract:
According to African Population and Health Research Center, cost of enrolling secondary remains one of the stumbling blocks of transiting to high school (Maurice Mutisya, Benta Abuya, and Danielle Doughman, 2015). In year 2010 only 46% of the pupils from the slums of Nairobi managed to transit to high school (Admassu, 2010). The goal of this project that ranged from
2013 to 2015 was to improve learning outcomes and enhance secondary school participation of disadvantaged girls in urban informal settlements. The objectives of the project were, to increase instructional time and opportunity to learn; increase awareness about challenges of and support to girls’ education by parents and community leaders and decrease cost related barriers on girls’ transition to and continuation in secondary education on marginalized girls’ education. The project targeted a total 1149 girls in Viwandani and Korogocho slums in Nairobi Kenya: 432 are in treatment one, 402in control and 579 in treatment two. Girls that attained a minimum of 250 marks out of possible 500 marks in their Kenya National Examination were aided with an overhead that facilitates them to transit to secondary school. Targeted girls were offered after school support in numeracy, literacy and life skills for two hours per week, parents from treatment one in both sides were counseled hourly per month, parents from treatment one engaged in at least one meeting with an aim of calling them to support the project by allowing their daughters to attend sessions and support them to do their homework. The data was categorized and synthesized by use of Ms-Excel functions. Girls accounting 78%attended the sessions while 15% of the target were reached but never attended. There was improvement of 21% of performance over the two years. In treatment were87% parents have been counseled.
