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Rose,
I am continually inspired by your story and all that WISER is doing in Muhuru Bay. I am so happy to be apart of the WISER Family, and I cannot wait for the school to open in January of 2010!
I've been following your work from over here in New York City, and your vision for WISERBridge is truly inspiring. Your approach of tackling education specifically as a means to create broader change seems like exactly the right thing to be doing. In addition, there is such a need to create environments that specifically support female achievement, both in Muhuru Bay and across the globe.
Best of luck,
Cara
Rose,
I was fortunate to meet firsthand the students and teachers involved in the WISERBridge program. It was truly amazing to witness the level of engagement of the instructors and the desire to learn of the pupils. With tangible goals and availability of both material and human resources, the students push themselves and accomplish what previously many thought to be impossible. It is simple, yet ingenious, solutions, like WISERBridge, that yield the best results. Interaction and accountability unlock value that just textbooks and additional classroom time cannot. Inspirational.
Jeff
Thanks for your wonderful thoughts Jeffrey. I definitely agree that our tangible goals have helped us to have such a big impact so quickly. We have already improved from a 193 average on our first exam to a 230, and we are almost to our goal of a 275 average. It is very exciting to have girls in this remote corner of Nyanza nearing the 400 mark!
Thank you for visiting, and I hope you come to Muhuru to visit again soon.
Warmly,
Rose
Hope is what WISER and WISERBridge gives to the women of Kenya. It's a wonderful project, and I HOPE that in its success, it will become contagious and sow its seeds across the country. To see the excitement in student's faces learning is awe inspiring!
Leigh,
I seriously hope WISERBridge can serve as a model for other areas of the country and plant its seeds in more areas! Thank you for your continued support.
Thanks kindly,
Rose
Wiserbridge has done more than our expectation in Muhuru. It has not only raised the standard of scoring, that is the standard of performance, but also increased the togetherness. It has brought competition among both boys and girls, schools, and teachers. Every person is working so hard to be the best. We all support wiserbridge and would like the dream of the founders to come true. We appreciate the work they have done and the are still doing.
Wow Charles. I just wanted to say thanks so much for your comment, especially what you said about togetherness. I agree that the program has been bringing students, teachers, and parents together. We have tried to make it holistic and a true community project, not just a quick fix.
I sit in Muhuru now, about to compile the results from the end of term exam on a fuel generator powered computer, and I am inspired from your post to work through the night. From the looks of it, the students have improved even more, and we are well on our way to our goal of a 275 average. How cool is that?! I can't wait to see how much WISERBridge students grow before the KCPE in November!
Toni
wiser brige is a good idea since it as brought a great improvement to the pupils of Muhuru and especialy girls and since then the girls have got opportunity of beating the boys in schools and even to the teachers. They now have chance to learn computer and they also ensure that the pupils of various schools compete one another so it should continue just the way it as started. DID YOU KNOW? The wiser brige has made the standered of girls to grow and now the top pupil is a girl. It is great!!!!!!!!!!!.
Spending a week in Muhuru Bay this March and meeting the WISERBridge students in most of the village's primary schools just a few months after the program began, I was astounded by the excitement and joy in these students from the fundamental but difficult to achieve things that should not be taken for granted anywhere in the world--committed teachers, involved parents, and a supportive community.
The students believe--and test scores show--that they are literally changing their lives through WISERBridge. Their faces, when we recognized them for their progress toward academic success, were radiant. I know I will make a return visit to Muhuru Bay next summer to once again spend time with these unforgettable students.
Rose and the WISERBridge team deserve our admiration and support for all they have accomplished in such a short time and their plans to expand the program to even more students in Muhuru Bay.
With thanks for your work,
Joanne
Sellecciah,
What beautiful thoughts you have on the WISERBridge Program. The teachers in Muhuru are really trying, and with our top student as a girl, I know that Muhuru will prove successful on the KCPE exam in November. We are hoping the top girl, Wendy Sheryl, may even reach 400.
Muhuru is really improving thanks to devoted community members and girls like you.
Respectfully yours,
Rose
When I first heard about WISER, I completely agreed with the concept of empowering women through education. Then, I heard about WISERBridge and how WISER has influenced the community of Muhuru Bay and was inspired by the successes of the program. It is absolutely amazing that the students of Muhuru Bay have increased their exam scores to a 230 average from 193! This growth shows the hardwork that the students, parents, teachers, principals, and individuals at WISER are exerting. I am extremely thankful and excited to join the WISER community in Muhuru Bay and am excited to see even more growth in the future!
As a UNICEF volunteer, I was fortunate enough to get an opportunity to visit Muhuru and meet the wonderful people there. The work WISER is doing in Muhuru especially through their WISERBridge program is highly admirable. Not only help improve quality of education, but also help in community development, access to better health, sanitation etc. in this remote area. I especially appreciate their efforts to improve education for girls who are commonly neglected in society. The dedicated staff is putting in their best to support the cause. I hope for WISER to keep growing and achieve all that they aim for and more.
I heard of the WISER project as a whole in 2006 and it brought joy to my heart. The children of Western Kenya do not have the same education resources their counterparts around the country have. It is inspiring watching a new generation of empowered youths being given a chance at Muhuru bay. Go WISER. Go WISERbridge
The Impact of girls education is so crucial that it shouldn’t be neglected, because their position in society has been so outstanding since Early civilisation, This is a great opportunity that will enable many females who wouldn’t have had access to complete education like WISER can offer, I do strongly believe that WiSER will be of change in many young peoples lives in Kenya..
Girls besides being housewives, they can be a big add to the society provided they are given an opportunity to study and excel with their brians. You Educate a girl, you will be educating the entire society becuase they come out as ladies of a substance.
Thank you all x x petite x x
I have read about the WISERBRIDGE project anad I believe that it is a great idea. The education of the girl child is an important aspect in the current generation. In the past we have seen how the girl child was maginalised, being forced into early marriages and being denied a chance to any kind of education and therefore reducing them (in many instances) to mere slaves. With WiserBridge this would give them a chance and an opportunity to a better life.
The WISERBRIDGE project really sounds like a revolutionary idea in this part of Africa, because resources are scarce and the communities around do not provide the same opportunities to their children, compared to more developed nations.
WISER and WISERBRIDGE are both innovative projects that are having an immense impact on the entire Muhuru Bay community. It has been incredible to work with WISER over the last three years, and I look forward to the opening of WISER in 2010! The project is unique in its comprehensive and holisitc approach, setting a strong example for development endeavors around the world. The community partnership with Muhuru Bay is unparalleled in other development projects I have been involved in. Thank you to WISER and to all those that have worked tirelessly to make this dream a reality!
In the last six months, WISERBridge has set a new standard throughout Muhuru Bay - inspiring students, parents and teachers to believe in a new possibility for educational success, one that has students passing their KCPE and being able to access secondary education. As the Executive Director of WISER, we are thrilled to have WISERBridge as the foundation to our school, our vision and our future and we know that this will become a replicable model for primary education excellence throughout Kenya and hopefully throughout our global village. Olalo! (Olalo means Bridge in the local Luo language).
Congratulation for being selected. We hope you will link with in facilitating,
Integration of ICT in Quality Education for Sustainable Developemnt in Kenya.
This we are doing through iEARN Kenya.
See: www.iearn.org
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Congratulations Rose upon being recognized and selected among the finalists of the Champions of Quality Education in Africa! I wish you continued success as you strive to provide quality education to girls. From the success story you have created, I pray that you create more partnerships so as to extend this idea to other girls in Africa. Congs!
I was privileged to witness first-hand the effects that the WISERBridge program is having on the community of Muhuru Bay as a whole. I do not mean to downplay the significant measurable impact that the program is having on the test scores of local pupils in any way, however, the role WISERBridge plays in the community is much more extensive. I have seen this program bring together pupils, teachers, parents, administrators, and officials from within and without the community to celebrate the successes of their students and challenge them to achieve even greater goals. The community has taken ownership of the concept that the academic success of their children is not only attainable but necessary for the growth and development of Muhuru. This ideal has carried into the business sector, where a group in Muhuru known as the Young Social Entrepreneurs invest a significant portion of their income in the education of the following generation through programs such as WISER and WISERBridge. The Region of Muhuru, the first news publication to cover events in this area, has publicized the achievements on the WISERBridge Exams of individual pupils and schools throughout the community, acting as yet another catalyst in Muhuru's drive to improve their own education system. And that is the crux of the matter. They, the entire community of Muhuru, are working towards this end. WISERBridge has truly rekindled a fire within this community to better themselves through the education of their children. Bravo.
Keep up the great work you are doing for the Kenyan Kids of the future!
I am so incredibly excited about the dialogue we have started in this competition about WISER. It has made me realize how many people are involved in promoting our mission and how amazing it is to work with such devoted, hard-working, and passionate individuals, groups, and communities throughout the world. Not just a bridge anymore...
I truly believe that with our holistic approach on people, not objects, on interaction, not curriculum, and on community, not just teachers and students, we are on to something in improving educational standards in Africa. Much love to you all!
Toni
On July 28, 2009 the judges reviewed the entries for the Changemakers “Champions of Quality Education in Africa” competition and would like to pass on the following feedback (listed below) for your entry. Thank you for applying and for your hard work in the field. We are excited to archive your entry to serve as a leading solution for the worldwide community of innovators. We wish you continued luck with your innovative, sustainable, and socially impactful initiatives.
All the best, The Changemakers Team
“I really like that this is part of a larger community development program, mentoring teachers and increasing girls’ access to secondary school. It addresses a critical need to learn more about what it takes to bridge primary and secondary schooling. Since this is a fairly new initiative, in terms of sustainability, I would like to learn more about where future funding will come from to pay for the performance as the initiative progresses.”
- Changemakers “Champions of Quality Education in Africa” Judges: Escuela Nueva, Center for International Education at the University of Massachusetts, Valentino Achak Deng Foundation, CARE (United States), African Leadership Academy, UNICEF
Thanks so much for your feedback! We are continually working to improve the program and make it the best thing possible for our community in Muhuru. As the former WISERBridge Director, I would love to be able to start a dialogue about ways to progress WISERBridge with insight from the judges listed. Please let me know if this is possible.
Thanks!
Toni
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