Seiyo Primary School is found in Kesses subcounty, in Uasin Gishu. It’s three kilometres off of Eldoret-Nakuru highway, and the school has a total population of 357 pupils, made up of 176 girls and 181 boys.
Mary is a class eight pupil at Seiyo, and sixth born in a family of eight children. Her mother is Mrs. Susan, who is a small-scale farmer and an iMlango microfinance loan customer.
Mary says that iMlango has given her an opportunity to go to the lab and read stories, as well as improve her literacy skills in answering comprehension questions, defining new words, and writing compositions out of the new words.
She told the team of how the iMlango learning platform has provided important revision tools, which she uses to prepare for her exams.
‘My results have improved since I started going to the computer lab. Thank you iMlango for bringing the computers to our schools’’, said Mary.
Her target KCPE result is 330 marks out of a possible 500 marks. She aspires to join Loreto Matunda Girls High School in Uasin Gishu, as it is well known for good academic performance, as well as producing good citizens in the community.
From her above results, we can see that there is a positive improvement from her first exam, where she scored 211/500, and now the end of term two where she achieved 279/500, which is a great improvement.
Her class teacher confirmed that she attends school consistently because she loves going to the computer lab to learn.
Figure 1: Mary’s revision attempts, as shown in the learning platform
Mary is aware of how the revision quizzes in the learning platform can help her in revising for the National Kenya Certificate of Primary Education exams that she will be sitting for at the end of the year, and therefore has used the digital revision papers constantly, as shown by the figure above.
During the field team’s visit to Mary’s school, she advised that she is passionate about being a Doctor when she grows up, so that she can help people in need in her community. And with the digital learning tools available to Mary through iMlango, she’s well on the way to fulfilling her career aspiration.
Until next time,
The iMlango Team