Mwanzo Employs Dedicated Teachers

Mwanzo is lucky to have 23 dedicated staff members at MWCEA. Here are some highlights of just a few of our teachers.

Teacher Mike finished his secondary education in 2011 and played professional soccer from then until April 2013. In May 2013 he joined Kericho Teachers’ Training College, studying to be a Primary 1 teacher and completing this course in 2015. After two years of service in other schools, he sought a position at Mwanzo Education Center, because he believed in the Mwanzo ideals of eradicating poverty through provision of high quality, affordable education for all. While teaching at Mwanzo, he has continued to expand his teaching credentials, for example in completing Competency-Based Curriculum training. He aspires to earning a PhD as soon as he can save up enough to pursue this training. 

(P.S. As of 2021, he has begun his graduate program.)

Teacher Sharon’s father passed away when she was two-years old. Her mother was very young and financially unstable, so her maternal grandparents cared for her in her early years. She was enrolled in primary school, and passed with high marks, so she was invited to join a prominent secondary school. Unavoidable prevented this, so she commenced her secondary school at Migingo Girls School. After two years there, she again had to change schools due to the lack of funds to pay for boarding. Despite this hardship, she completed her secondary schooling with passing scores. Lacking funds to enter college immediately, she helped her mother in the market, selling cereal grains and doing “computer packages,” i.e., learning basic computer skills, one class at a time. She was sponsored in this effort for three months by the Ahero Widows. 

After that, she joined King’s Glory Teacher Training College, a two-year private college where she earned her Primary Teacher Education credentials. This experience, too, was challenging, because the students were able to see the tutors only for the first term. All of the remaining terms, the college didn’t have enough funding to pay the lecturers, so the first year students were learning from the notes of the second year students. Tr. Sharon reports that at times, the second-year students were doing the teaching, because the principal was the only staff person still remaining in the entire college. 

In time, she earned her Certificate in Primary Education.  and eventually, hearing good things about Mwanzo Education Center, she became a teacher in our community. She continues to add credentials, and a few years back entered a full Diploma course in Early Childhood Education. This was a challenge, since by then she was a wife, a mother, a teacher, and a student. Nonetheless, she earned second place in her diploma class. She now plans to pursue a diploma in Instructional Technology, studying on a part-time basis as she can get the funds.