Rossholme School in Kenya
Rossholme in Kenya is a primary school in the Kiambiu slum in Nairobi. Rossholme provides free education for all those children in the community aged between 3 and 12 who cannot afford fees and also free breakfast and a lunch meal which, for many of the children, is their only food of the day.
Fundraising
It’s a small charity, funded predominantly by the efforts of volunteers in the U.K. but it makes a huge difference to the children in Kiambiu slum who would struggle to get an education without it
The school’s headteacher, Joyce Aruga, has her own extraordinary back story. She was born in 1986 on Mageta Island in Lake Victoria, the youngest of 11 children. Her parents couldn’t afford to educate Joyce or her siblings and at 14 she was forced to become the third wife of a much older man. Determined to get an education, she ran away to Nairobi where she worked as a maid. She managed to get a place at a secondary school with the help of a children’s education charity and used her wages to pay fees.
Joyce went on to do her teacher training and it was in 2013 when she was selected to attend the first BBC 100 WOMEN conference which celebrates annually 100 inspirational women around the world. It was here she met Judy Webb, a pioneering woman in the British military, who had gone on to run a small all-girls' boarding school called Rossholme. The two hit it off which is how Joyce, with the help of Judy, set up Rossholme School in Kenya.
Rossholme School was founded as a girls’ independent school in 1888 in the UK. It provided a wonderful environment for learning, sport, drama and many other activities.
Rossholme School closed in UK closed in 2005.
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Former Headmistress Judith Webb now runs the charity, Rossholme School in Kenya, a school for children aged 3 -12 yrs in one of the poorest parts of Nairobi. The school run by Joyce Aruga