Digital Education

Kuumba Project

For almost a decade, we have built a sustainable educational environment for children in the Kibagare informal settlement, Nairobi Kenya.

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No where is the digital divide more evident than in the most world’s urban slums. In these informal settlements, school children face front line difficulties of finding food, water, shelter, and basic care - let alone access to quality education.

St. Martin’s aims to change this for the students in Kibagare, providing an oasis from slum life. However, with its own limited resources, the school often struggled to provide the quality education that every student deserves.

Maintaining textbooks is nearly impossible in the environment where chalk alone is a much-appreciated commodity. And outside of school, none of the students have access to electricity and running water in their homes. Internet and e-learning systems are virtually non-existent which deepens the digital divide for the students.

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Our Kuumba founders partnered with local a local education partner, Camara, to bring scale and digital offerings to both the Primary and Secondary schools at St. Martin’s. Since 2017, Camara has built two modern computer centers and provided laptops for all the teachers. In addition, Camara and Kuumba launched a formal e-learning math and language platform.

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Since the implementation of this technology and investment in e-learning, St. Martin’s primary school students improved their scores on the Kenyan National exams by over 11%. And - the enthusiasm is palpable. On campus, you can often see the students enthusiastically running to computer class for their one screen time of the week.

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We are proud to say that every student at school now has access to the computer labs at least once per week. However, we are still far from providing a fully technology-enabled learning experience that lives up to 21st century standards. While we attempt to close the digital divide, there is still more work to be done.

If you would like to contribute to the development of technology-enabled learning at St. Martin’s, please consider sponsoring a student for $500 dollars a year which will ensure each student and their teachers continue to have access to modern technology.


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