About Us - DAMSIDE PREPARATORY SCHOOL

About Damside Preparatory School

OUR vision

Making learning easier by constructing good crassrooms, dorm rooms and drilling a water borehole for the school

Our Mission

To offer quality education through impacting knowledge to OVCs in Kibera Nairobi and Kiserian Kajiado Kenya

Our School Motto

To the heights by moiling and toiling

OUR BACKGROUND AND HISTORY

Damside preparatory school (DPS) is a community based school registered as a CBO.It started in the year 2002 in a church hall in the slums of Kibera , Nairobi Kenya. The school runs from pre-school, primary and secondary.

The current population is 200 children ECDE, primary and secondary who are mostly vulnerable and orphans from Kibera slum and some from the Masai community. On 21st June 2018, our school got demolished by the government of Kenya to pave way for the railway line. We lost all our property. Students,teachers and parents lost their property too as their homes were demolished too. We move to Kiserian Kajiado county Kenya where we began the rebuilding efforts to shelter the learners,feed and teach them. The rebuilding work was done by the help of friends, well-wishers and other school partner who had previously volunteered.

Objectives

To improve the education standards of orphans and Vulnerable Children.

To improve the Quality of life of OVC through provision of quality education and basic needs.

To advocate and protect the rights of children through community empowerment and support of those affected and infected with HIV and AIDS.

To help Poor children in achieve their goals, realize their potential talents and achieve their dreams through provision of basic needs.

Catchment area Where the children come from

Most of our children come from kibera and the surrounding Maasai community

social economic activities

Most of the parents earn a living through casual jobs, farming, making jewelry for sale and some little businesses but the unemployment rate is very high.

Unique geographical features

There is Nairobi National park a few kilometers from our school and wildlife around the school.