Archives: Schools

18 children between 5-8 years old are educated by one teacher in one room at the Nonsaath Primary School. The students are from 46 local families, 250 people from 3 main ethnic groups. The first project Grand Circle Foundation funded was the construction of toilets, as part of our WASH (Water, and Sanitation, Hygiene) initiative… Read more »

Grand Circle Foundation funded the construction of 2 classrooms to create the Ngamo Secondary School. For children finishing at Ngamo Primary School the only possibility to continue on to secondary was too far to be an option.  For 23 students secondary school became a reality. Clean fresh running water is an absolute luxury in the… Read more »

The Lemong’o Primary School was started in 1991 under a tree and the school buildings were not completed until 2013. When Grand Circle Foundation began supporting the school in 2014, the school was in desperate need for all the basics to provide an education. Typically the school receives about $195 annually from the government to… Read more »

There is no escaping the hardships that school children in remote rural areas of Africa must endure but in spite of these hardships, a boundless school spirit burns brightly, and enthusiasm rings louder than the steel gong that brings an end to the day. Ngamo Primary School, founded in 1946 by the Methodist Church and… Read more »

Masaai are among the best known local populations in Kenya due to their residence near Amboseli National Park,  and their distinctive customs and dress. The Kenyan government instituted programs to encourage the Maasai to abandon their traditional semi-nomadic lifestyle, but the people have continued their age-old customs. Grand Circle Foundation has supported this tribe by funding water… Read more »

We’ve seen Amboseli Primary School flourish since we began our partnership. In 2010, it was a low performing school, ranked #67 of 90 schools in theregion. By 2017, it ranked #3, and continues to be a top-performing school. In the years we’ve been working with Amboseli, we’ve completed several projects that not only improved school performance,… Read more »

Having invested so much in the primary education of these students, Harriet Lewis wanted them all to have the opportunity to continue their schooling. Yet the nearest secondary school to Amboseli is 12 miles away–which is simply too far for many students. To place continued education within every student’s reach, Grand Circle Foundation built a… Read more »

This small school needed a lot of support to provide even the basics required for a decent education. Grand Circle Foundation built 4 bathrooms; provided library supplies; and kitchenware and dining materials. Our final project was to provide computers and computer workstations, teacher and student desks and chairs, whiteboards, lockers, and educational supplies.

The “Bund Naturschutz”  (Bavarian Society for the Protection of Nature) in Germany is the largest and the most successful Bavarian organization for the protection of nature and the environment. With more than 170,000 members, this association actively advocates for preservation and protection of the natural flora, fauna and environment in Bavaria. Grand Circle Foundation donated… Read more »

In the 1980’s a group of young women from the town of Lakia in the northern Negev got together with the goal of trying to help women by organizing summer camps for children, teaching women to read and write, and more. Gradually their ideas evolved until the Desert Embroidery Project became the flagship of the… Read more »