Jekyll2019-02-04T16:46:25+00:00https://gathonis.gift/feed.xmlCharity.Gathoni's Gift2019-02-04T00:00:00+00:002019-02-04T00:00:00+00:00https://gathonis.gift/news/gathonis-gift-getting-planted<p>If I had to describe the year 2018 in one word, I would use the word, “planted”. It has been a year of settling in and we are finally owning what will become our greatest part of our foundation, the beginning. We want to memorize this year to remember our work, our mistakes and how we have finally settled on a growth path. We are excited to see how 2019 will challenge these roots. Our website is now ready, our online pages have also gone up and are ready for community engagement. We have also begun a registration process for our Netherlands branch which will be greatly instrumental to our work.</p> <p>Our team is energized to move from the operational phase to stakeholder engagements as well as beneficiary activities. On personal fronts we continue to create a bigger timepiece for this passion project separate from our 8-5 jobs, We will be looking to loop in more help so as to ensure project sustainability.</p> <p>On our pilot schools part, it was somewhat discouraging to see the just-released class 2018 results (KCPE). They say that numbers and/or grades, in this case, do not lie and so if students do not perform well then maybe our program will not go well, or maybe we are doing as much as we should. It is always easy to reward perfect score students, and our scholarships were initially meant to support students who score highest and cannot afford tuition. However, if we were to be fair in our assessment the inspiration we have brought to these schools will and must transcend the limitations of a single exam score. We want to empower all students under our programs and whether they end up in National Schools or not they will be better people. So we are at a space of rationalizing our scholar framework. We want to support all students who are within our chosen pilot schools.</p> <p>So, this year even as we adapt our programs to what is most needed, especially by prioritizing our library project we also want to spend more time understanding our beneficiaries and ensuring that our help is specific to each student needs, we shall leave nobody behind.</p> <p>Gathonis.</p>Gathoni's Gift

If I had to describe the year 2018 in one word, I would use the word, “planted”. It has been a year of settling in and we are finally owning what will become our greatest part of our foundation, the beginning. We want to memorize this year to remember our work, our mistakes and how we have finally settled on a growth path. We are excited to see how 2019 will challenge these roots. Our website is now ready, our online pages have also gone up and are ready for community engagement. We have also begun a registration process for our Netherlands branch which will be greatly instrumental to our work.

2017-12-31T00:00:00+00:002017-12-31T00:00:00+00:00https://gathonis.gift/news/gathonis-gift-is-happening<p>Hi all, thank you for being here and in your own way joining our journey. In truth the last few months have been interestingly informative. Since my last post a lot of people have come to me, asking about the foundation update, actually Tabby has also had her share of conversations about our plan. Thank you for challenging us to start and for keeping us accountable and allowing us to throw ideas around before we finally got to registration. That’s right! We are not officially registered. It has been a great honour to visit our pilot schools and introduce our plans while learning as much as we can from the students and teachers. So other than registration here is a few more updates;</p> <ul> <li>We are official, we are now registered, we miraculously found a few people who agreed to be part of our Gift Foundation. They are our officials!. Good thing is they are spread across the world so we are looking forward to collaborate.</li> <li>We have had a couple of activities, Last month and the month before that we visited our pilot schools and actually hosted a conservation day in one, this is real progress and we are grateful to find people and organizations who are willing to partner with us in these activities.</li> <li>The Website, this is actually project Tabby, we have a website coming up, Tabby has decided to be super perfectionist about it so it will take abit of time but I am told it is amazing. We have been collecting a lot of content for the same and we cannot wait to share this with you</li> <li>The donation and perhaps the greatest move, one of our organization officials has been collecting books for next school year delivery, we have a library coming up in his store, we are looking for a travel partner to send the same to Kenya. We have also called on to our friends to match this donation for more learning materials, if you have books to share please reach out to us soonest</li> <li>Overall goodwill, our network is growing, we have met many friends who are willing to assist in the foundation. Some have pledged time, money and technical support and for that we are grateful. In the next post, we will share details on the website. Very exciting times ahead.</li> </ul> <p>Thank You.</p> <p>Penny &amp; Tabby</p>Gathoni's Gift

Hi all, thank you for being here and in your own way joining our journey. In truth the last few months have been interestingly informative. Since my last post a lot of people have come to me, asking about the foundation update, actually Tabby has also had her share of conversations about our plan. Thank you for challenging us to start and for keeping us accountable and allowing us to throw ideas around before we finally got to registration. That’s right! We are not officially registered. It has been a great honour to visit our pilot schools and introduce our plans while learning as much as we can from the students and teachers. So other than registration here is a few more updates;