Good school infrastructure
For many people, access to schools with a good learning environment, clean drinking water and solid sanitation is a given. Access to clean water has been considered a human right since 2010, but this is anything but the norm in rural Kenya.
Although various institutions have made it their mission to improve the situation, implementation often fails.
As the Big Girls Foundation, we specifically support schools with a high need for basic infrastructure and implement the projects on site with our partners - in this way we sustainably improve the learning conditions for girls and ensure that all resources reach the site.
The hygienic conditions at the schools where we support girls thanks to the support of the sponsors of the Big Girls Foundation are often catastrophic. Often there are only a few dilapidated and dilapidated toilets for hundreds of girls who not only have to go to school but also sleep there - and running water is out of the question. This leads to sometimes poor hygienic conditions and promotes the rapid spread of infectious diseases. Urgently needed bedrooms to offer the girls a safe environment and to protect them from the dangerous journey to school, circumcision or forced marriage in their families are often completely missing or are in a catastrophic condition.
For this reason, as the Big Girls Foundation, in addition to the education of girls, we also support infrastructure projects at schools that we have visited locally. Together with our local employees and partners, we carefully select the schools with the greatest need for action and prioritize projects with the greatest positive impact.