The Kibera School for Girls Mission/Vision Statement

VISION  (the long term goal/outcome)

The Kibera School for Girls strives to empower the young women of Kibera to imagine and then enact their own solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems by providing a superior education. The Kibera School for Girls creates life long learners who take with them the skills to change their own lives and feel a responsibility to give back to others. 

MISSION  (how we will do it)

1)    The Kibera School for Girls provides an education rooted in principles of tolerance, creativity, and self-directed learning.  The school provides a supportive environment for young women to realize their full potentials through a strong arts program, a focus on literacy, a science and math program, and opportunities for students to find and learn about their own passions. 

2)    The Kibera School for Girls was founded based on recognition of a need for educational reform in Kenya and a desperate need for empowering educational spaces for women.  By providing all female role models, employing talented and passionate female teachers and staff from Kibera, and serving the neediest students the school is a beacon of hope.

3)     We believe in teaching children that anything is possible with hard work and education, in classrooms where children learn at their own pace, and in creating an environment that is challenging, engaging, and creative. 

4)    Through principles of creativity, non-discrimination, free education, and communal and parental engagement The Kibera School for Girls will bring social and systemic change to pass.