Can you please tell me about your background before you began studying at St. Aloysius Gonzaga?
I come from a family of seven, and I’ve been in Kibera for almost all of my life. My mom died when I was 10 years old and my dad died when I was 2 years old, so it’s been quite an experience struggling in life to ensure that I get a better education. In my family of seven, I am the youngest, and when my mom passed away it happened that only two of my brothers had gone through college. At the time, the rest were in high school, and I was in primary, and we found that it was hard for those in high school to continue because there was nobody to pay for their education.
Life became so hard in my home, so I had to go to “up country,” but I found that when I went there, instead of education, I was given hard labor. This hard labor became part of my studies, and after questioning if this was the education I was brought here for, I decided that I had to run back to Nairobi. Here, life became a challenge—that is, a challenge in a way that I had to become a street boy because I knew when I came home, my brothers—the people who made me go “up country”—would not be happy and say that my situation was a mess.
I grew up as a street boy, but I decided to use my talent, so I was one of the street boys who was using art: I was acting, doing drama, and poetry that was usually funny in order to bring in income by working in the city center. There was a woman that would come up to me and ask me to go with her to church, but I always resisted. The third time when she came I told myself, “This woman has been so insisting, so let me try and see what she really wants out of me.” I went with her to a church called New Life Restoration, and when I came there, everything in my life was changed in a way that I was now given to the church. I was actually living in the church, and everything about me was now a new life: the slum life or the street life was changed because everything I was getting from the streets, I was now getting from the church, and the talent I was using in the streets was now used in the church.
The woman who brought me to the church became my adopted mother: I decided to become a part of her family, because I looked at my own family and decided it was not good for my sake. When my family noticed that I was close to where they lived, they tried to come and pick me up by force, but I had to stand my ground. I told them, “No. As much as I may look young, I have decided to be here.”
When did you first hear about St. Aloysius, and how did it come to be that you started studying there?
I didn’t know where I would go after graduating from primary school [1]. I started looking around for schools, and I was taken to other schools, but because of the challenge—that is, the school fees—I couldn’t continue because I had use any money I had to eat. At this same time, I found out that my adopted mother had lost her job, so again it was becoming a challenge to bring me up. I started asking myself what I would do now since this woman lost her income, so I started doing some business on my own, but this did not work very well.
For the first one month of my first year in secondary school, I went to five different schools. When I would be asked by teachers and administration at the school where my parents were, I would tell them that they are coming. The administration thought I was just playing with them since I had been in so many schools during this time. The schools were very concerned about my parents, but I never wanted a lot of stories about this because this would bring all of the memories back to me. I decided to just leave school.
My adopted mother’s daughter was connected with the Jesuits who were working around Nairobi. They had a program that was focused mainly on helping the orphans, so when this woman heard about it from her daughter, she came to me and asked if I would be interested in joining their program. They told me that they were starting a school, and they wanted me to be a part of it. After struggling to find finances to pay for school, I told them that I would join the program because I love education and wanted to be able to study.
First, we went to a school called John Paul where I began Form One [the first year of secondary school in the Kenyan educational system]. Father Terry [Charlton, the co-founder of St. Aloysius Gonzaga] was a part of the group who were paying for my tuition and eleven other students in this program set up by the Jesuits. He, and the others helping with this program, decided to start their own school because 1) the school fees of John Paul had gone up in terms of price, and 2) it would be better if they could teach us in an institution that was their own. As I was entering Form Two in 2004, the 12 of us in the program went with Father Terry and were the first class in the new school called St. Aloysius Gonzaga. I came to know about St. Aloysius and be a part of it through the courtesy of the woman who took me in.
What were your educational endeavors after St. Aloysius, and how did your time at this school shape these pursuits?
Once you’ve graduated from St. Aloysius—I cleared Form Four in 2006—you take part in a six-month community service program as a way of giving back to the community. You go and do service voluntarily, so you have to do it from your heart and truly decide to help somebody, just as I have been helped in school. The program that I took part in dealt mostly with AIDS orphans at a community-based center. For six months, I worked at this center as a social worker, even though I had not studied the field.
When I was doing this work, I always was being asked, “What do you want to do after this now that your results [from the examination for the Kenyan Certificate in Secondary Education] are here?”[2] At the time of hearing these questions, I was sure that I was going to study law. When looking at the kind of people that I was reaching during this community service work—such as the children with HIV/AIDS—you imagine the kind of life they were living and the challenges they faced. When I would go out and do needs assessments for these families, I discovered that there was something unique in each and everyone. I also discovered that there was something in me that touched me, which made me change from pursuing law. I realized that if I do law, I might be helping those who have gone against the law to be proven innocent. I decided to be focus-minded and see how I can really help the people I worked with during the community service. This made me choose to do something related to social work.
In August 2007, I went forth and majored in community development and social work at the Kenyan Institute of Social Work and Community Development. The studies focused on project management, fundraising, project design, and how can you work as an organization on the lowest level to help the most challenged families—studies that are all about helping the community that made me feel that this is what I want to do. Within this university program, there is a period of time in which you do volunteer work for three months, so I decided to return to the organization in Kibera that I volunteered with previously in the community service program at St. Aloysius.
I was now implementing the skills I learned while in college, and those who saw me in the program before when I had just finished secondary school now saw me as somebody who has come back as somebody skilled in this field. They saw me as somebody who was doing their best, and they decided to test me by giving me full responsibility of a social worker. I was moving around the entire Kibera community to help and identify cases and also do some hospital visits, because there are those who are bedridden who need help getting medication. At times, you go on visits in the field to confirm that the medicine they were given is actually being taken. I was ensuring that everybody who came to the organization was pleased with my services, and when I was leaving after the three months, the organization didn’t want me to leave and offered permanent employment. I had to go back and do my studies, though. I just completed my studies last year, but that does not mean that I did not continue to do anything while in school. I remained active in the field, and I was in an organization known as Hands of Love, of which I was the chair for the Youth Program. I oversaw capacity building programs for the youths and also worked to be a mentor for them.
What are you currently doing and in what way, if any, did St. Aloysius contribute to this professional career choice?
In 2008, I felt it was time for me to move out of the organization I was volunteering with and form my own cause with the knowledge I had gained for my studies at college. I thought it would be wise to start something of my own—something that can match my experience and my education and show that this is what I have learned. On January 27, 2008, I started Foundation of Hope. It was a vision that started existing in 2006 but became a reality in 2008. I knew that I had talent as an actor, and I knew that these skills and my personality were what was bringing everybody together and making me successful. These talents were what was motivating me, and I asked myself, ”With these talents, what can I do really to change the community I am a part of?” I had a vision to create a community-based organization, and I knew I had the skills because this is what I studied in school—knowledge such as how to manage projects and fundraise—and with this knowledge and my talents, I thought about what I could do. I wanted to find a number of people who could stand beside me so that we could really reach a number of people’s hearts in the community. I approached the graduates and recent graduates from St. Aloysius who were interested in acting with the idea of forming a group—at the time it had no name—in which we could all come together and nurture our talents. I told the youths that this organization could work, as it is just a matter of you coming and I coming, and together, us coming up with plays and poetry aimed to touch the community. I told them that we are going to see the success of it.
I was looking at the long-term goal of reaching out to the community and giving the community information about transformation by using the talent of art. Along with going into the community, the goal also included learning more about the community we are a part of. At this time, it was the period of post-election violence, so I wanted to use our new organization to do something on peace. The youths and I came together, and we decided to do something on the alternatives to violence by creating plays on peace and reconciliation. We started going into Kibera, and although it was risky [3], we knew that during the small periods of peace and calm we could get our message out. Another organization saw what we were doing and approached me about working together. This organization had been distributing food to people who didn’t have enough money to buy their own food and a number of people who had been displaced—groups of people who were traumatized and didn’t want to see anybody while in their current situation. The organization asked if we could come and present the messages of peace that we had been presenting to the community. This was very successful and made me realize that our goal could really be done.
After reaching out to the community and working with these people, I knew that HIV/AIDS was a pandemic, so I identified this subject as an area of focus following the period of post-election violence. Our group came together and decided to come up with plays focusing on stigma discrimination and HIV/AIDS. After three months of success in getting our message out to the community about peace and reconciliation, as well as HIV/AIDS, we realized that we didn’t have a name yet. I asked the group to go home and think of something, so that night I told God, “I need a name—something that will really change and transform the community. When I was sleeping, a vision came in, and I pictured a sign of a foundation, and I saw something shiny in the foundation. There was a sign of hope, as there was the sign of a dove and a glow—a vision of light and hope. I saw a foundation, so the first thing I knew was that it was going to be a foundation. I saw something also as a symbol of hope for the community, and although I didn’t know what I could put in, I could see hope, so I decided to call it Foundation of Hope. I looked at the other symbols being represented—the light—and asked what these symbols were trying to represent. I concluded that the light was a shining light to the community, so we came up with the motto: “Shining light and hope to the community using our talents.” We sat down and looked at the vision, mission, and our talents and knew that we are here to nurture the youths’ talents; create a community living in peace and harmony, create a community that accepts all—that is, both male and female; create brotherhood and sisterhood; and to create a community that accommodates all by using our talents. That became our major vision, that is, nurturing talents so that we can go out and tap, transform, and reach the community. That is how we came to be.
What really motivates us to do this is from the St. Aloysius spirit: “Learn, Love, and Serve.” We’ve been in school learning and loving, and we have been shown all kinds of love, but now it is our time to serve the community. We have to serve these people by all means. We have to reach out and really tap their talents.
Today, the group that started as acting, mostly in terms of drama, are doing a lot in the community. We continue to do acting and move twice a month into different villages—Kibera has roughly 21 villages. We put on plays that focus on identified subjects, including issues on the continued violence, drugs—including local brews that cause blindness, HIV prevention, and early pregnancy. The art and community outreach program focuses mainly on the social effects on the community of all of the challenges that it faces. When looking at these challenges, we try to come up with a way that you can show these issues clearly using drama and poetry, as well as dancing as a means to mobilize people. When people see people dancing, they want to come, so when the people are all there, we go to the poetry and the plays to send our message of transformation. We interview people after we are done to see how successful we were in explaining our message. We ask questions such as: “What did you understand, and how would you react if it was you in the situation we presented?”
Along with outreach, we do sanitation. Kibera has a big sanitation problem, as it has few poor drainage systems, so we, as Foundation for Hope, have been doing cleanups. We have 45 youths who are mostly graduates from St. Aloysius and others from different institutions who are actively involved in the foundation. We divide this number into different groups and assign different locations in the community we are in—different communities almost every month—so that by the end of the day that community has been cleaned. The community members wonder who we are and refer to us as what we call “youths with the jobs.” The Ministry of Youths has been giving youths opportunities to work in the community, so when they see us, the first thing they feel is that we are the youths who are being paid by the ministry and have come to clean for them. There are those who are insulting and saying, “Clean! This is your work that your are being paid to do by the ministry.” Other people will just clean and go, but we realized that the best way to explain who we are and go into the community is to conduct a drama after we clean—a drama designed to demonstrate what we were just doing. From this they realize that we are not the government people, because the government people do not have time to do this. We explain how they can find out more information about what we are doing, and most of them are interested in joining in. Most of the time, people ask who we are, and when we explain who we are, many offer to help. The community fully participates in what we are doing, as the best way to ensure that your work in the community is successful is to let the community [know what you are] doing. If you let the community on to what you are doing, they will be part of the puzzle, and once they have seen that you have cleaned their community, they will not want to see it dirty.
The third program that we are doing is home-based care and reach out to those who are HIV/AIDS-affected, the sick, those who are in hospitals, and those who are in correctional facilities. After every two months, we visit these type of institutions and identify the children's center that we want to offer our services voluntarily, so we can also show them our concern and love. We do cleaning, we help in feeding programs, and although most of us are not able to raise funds, we say that each youth will contribute 10 schillings. This way we can bring flour or fruits to the youths we are going to see. When you go to see somebody, you also present something to them, and the people tell us that although we think it is small, they really appreciate our contribution and place us on the donor list. These comments motivate us and give us strength to do it.
The fourth thing that we do comes from my other professional training as a soccer coach and from coaching St. Aloysius sports. In the community I coach other teams, so the other thing we do as Foundation of Hope is organizing sports programs, which include tournaments called “Sports for Social Change.” This means we are using sports as a means of social change whereby, for instance, when I am contacted to help a team and give them tips on soccer, I come up with a program that also has a message. For example, I’ll decide to talk about abstinence and prevention by using the soccer ball as a metaphor to explain the message. This way, you are doing all of the soccer training, but at the end of the day, you come about a message surrounding social change. When we have the tournaments, we do the dramas and also bring in people to do peer education during the rest times to talk about the identified issues, including HIV/AIDS and how to avoid peer pressure. This project has been very well-received in the community, so at the end of the day we are truly using sports for social change.
Do you believe that St. Aloysius thoroughly prepared you for your professional endeavor, and if so how?
St. Aloysius has been part and parcel of what I am doing. They paid for my college, so I went to the Kenyan Institute of Social Work and Community Development through the courtesy through St. Aloysius. I chose to do social work because of all of the ways that St. Aloysius supported me: they paid for my transportation to make sure I am in class; they fed me; they paid for my tuition; and they covered all of my exam fees. They have been a part of everything I have been doing in terms of education-wise, as they have brought me all the way from the start of my secondary education. They also have programs focused on capacity building and from these types of programs, I learned a lot on new subjects such as issues to do with peer pressure and drugs. You walk out of the school with your mind transformed, and you know what you really want to do in life. You are shown how to choose careers and shown the different ways you can go. You are not forced into a career, but instead are given options and told, “Look at your abilities and strengths and see what you can do.” You are prepared in a way that you can walk out of St. Aloysius and really know that this is what I want and this is how I can do it.
In terms of discipline, St. Aloysius focuses a lot on it, as it makes us think about where we want to be in the near future and who we want to be. Looking at myself when I came into the school and looking at myself today, I am transformed. When I first started, I was a little bit rude and got into trouble. They killed this behavior by making me a prefect. As a prefect, you have to be on the right side, so I was a prefect who used to be on the wrong side and now had to punish people for breaking the rules. By having to be on the right side and seeing this side, this is how I became very focused and realized what I want in life.
At times, we have all seen times that St. Aloysius has come to our rescue. For example, the school will not let you go sick, as they know the type of life you are coming from, so they support you in terms of medication. This is an example of how the school has been bringing care and taking care of us. The school has really shown us all kind of support: we are given books and uniforms free of charge, so we do not pay anything. If it were other schools, you would have had to pay a lot to be in the same situation, so to see all that St. Aloysius is giving you, you feel that you are at home. You are just like in your family, where everything is just there and you don’t have to force things to happen. When you want the books, you are shown “here are the books.” When you want food, food is there for free. You are there just to use your ability. You are told you are given freedom. What you have to do is be responsible for your freedom. For example, you can go out and play all day, but if I play all day, it won’t help me on my examinations. You have to realize that as much as you want to play soccer, you have to study to pass your exams.
The school has been so generous to us. I’ve never seen anybody expelled out of school because you have failed, with the reason that we are there for all. We are there to serve all, and we are taken as brothers and sisters, so we want to be shown the right way. For example, if I have a D- there is still something I can do with my grade. I don’t come there demoralized, but instead, open up my mind and think what can I do now and in future studies. The school has been supportive, and I have really appreciated that kind of support. I was a part of the first graduation class in 2006, I went to college, and I still go back and visit the office. You look at how the rest of the graduates are being treated, and realize that everybody is treated with a lot of maturity and respect. You know that everybody is important regardless of your grade.
How did St. Aloysius instill the idea of being men and women for others?
I translate men and women for others into being brought up in a setup—a structure teaches and allows you to really show concern for those who are outside of it. It is a setup that today, with the knowledge I have gained, if I see somebody suffering and it requires my help, I cannot ignore it. St. Aloysius is making somebody who is going to be responsible and a role model for the community. When I walk out there, somebody says that “That is a St. Aloysius product,” with the reason that they can see how he behaves and how he reacts—actions that are all about discipline. When you are doing everything and are always on the right side, everybody wants to associate with you, but when you are on the wrong side, nobody wants to associate with you. You are really structured in the school to be that kind of role model that we want in the society. You are given a good education, so that when you go outside of the school, you can go out and really help somebody.
You are shown how to be men and women for others during the six-month community service program after graduation. You are participating in a volunteer service in which you are for others, as the school had been for you. You are given this opportunity to give out what you have learned, give out your heart to the community, be there for somebody, and feel what other people are feeling.
If I get a well-paying job today, the best thing I can do is maybe say “I have a good job and am paid well,” so let me go back to St. Aloysius and be a mentor for one of the students; let me bring up one of the students, or let me buy books for the school. I’m giving back to where I’m from. I’m not forced to do that, but that should come from my heart. I should realize what I want to do to help the people who come from where I was from. Your home is your home, so you will always love your home and never want to see it falling when you can do something.
Today, I am coaching the St. Aloysius school team—a position that I am not paid to hold, but one I volunteer for. Yes, I paid for coaching classes and graduated from this, and I told myself, how can I give back to the school. I don’t want to be paid, but I want to come back and help. Also, we have been taught to be mentors for others, so we come back to do this. It is you with an individual with this kind of knowledge that you are given, and you look into your heart and be a role model to the rest. That is how I can summarize it: Can you be a role model to the rest? The school wants to see you become a person with a vision, somebody who is focused, and somebody who knows what he or she wants in life. With the good education you have, you can think of something you can do. You can have education, yes, but without action nothing can happen. You have to take a step: if I knock on a door and am told that there is no job, I don’t give up today. I still have other doors to knock on, because you never know where God is. We are told to be patient, as God always gives you time.
What we want in the community is change agents and that is what St. Aloysius is bringing: people who can change Kibera as a whole. So if you are standing there, you can say, those are St. Aloysius and they are changing the community. That is what I believe the school wants and that is why they are making “men and women for others.”
What role did faith play in your success at St. Aloysius?
In terms of faith, I am a Christian. Every month at St. Aloysius, there is a Mass, and you are given teachings and are told to reflect on the kind of life these people are in and the type of message you are given. When I reflected, I felt like this situation was not mine. When I looked at myself, I knew I was an orphan, and I didn’t see where I was going or the success in my life, so I told myself that I wanted to see a better tomorrow. I’ve been looking a lot at the parable of Jesus and the blind man. Jesus met the blind man and the disciples asked Jesus, “Whose fault is it that this man is blind?” Jesus told him, “Neither his parents or members of his family. He is blind to show that the work of God can be done in his life.” My situation is just a situation at that time, and any situation has to come to pass if you follow Jesus’ teaching that the situation is there just because of a particular kind of issue so that the work of God can be seen manifested in somebody. I believe that my situation is not a hindrance to my success. God is always there, and he knows that this is the kind of situation I am in. Yes, I’m coming from a poor background, but God knows that that situation is there, so that once you have education, once you have the kind of knowledge you have, you are going to be the change in the community. So I believed that I am going to be a change in the community and be somebody so that when everybody sees me, they want to be associated with me. When you are asked who is your mentor, I want people to be able to point to me. I believe that God is always there for all of us.
Looking back, what do you believe to be your greatest accomplishments at St. Aloysius?
I did a lot in the school. I was a dining hall prefect, drama chairperson, the organizing secretary for debates, and the games’ captain in the school. With all of these kind of departments that I had, I am sure that I really accomplished a lot in the school.
In terms of sports, I ensured that my school was playing, and as a player myself, I ensured that every time that all of the facilities needed were there. My teachers respected me for this as they knew that I was somebody who was capable. I started my coaching while in school, as I began coaching the school team. I started my coaching lessons while in school, so I knew that with this knowledge, I could apply it and really help my school. I knew I would succeed.
In terms of drama, I was helping the school, and that is where I saved most of my knowledge. I was best in drama, as all of my abilities were put in here. For example, for St. Aloysius Day they are using me to help them with the drama and dancing. They still need me to come and help with these kinds of issues.
As a prefect, everybody feared me when I was on duty because they knew that this is one of the toughest prefects that we have ever had. Everybody feared my voice as I had a commanding voice, so whenever they saw me, they knew I meant business. During my weeks on duty, everything was in order.
With the debates, I helped arrange a number of debates in the school. We had exchange programs with other schools, and I even became chairperson for some of the debates. It was really interesting being a part of the debates, and the school also appreciated the services.
Today, if you go around and ask, “Who was the most active student?” they will say it was me. I did my best in these activities when I was in school, and I know that I achieved a lot in terms of education, as I was in the top five.
What would you say your greatest obstacles were to being successful at St. Aloysius?
When I came to the school I was a bit rude, so people feared me. Most of the time, I fell on the wrong side of the teachers, so that became one of my major challenges. I found that things were not working well for me most of the time in terms of the classes, but after I was given the prefect badge, things starting changing.
When I went into secondary school, I was living with the family that took me in, but I decided that I wanted to live on my own. I was maturing and wanted my own privacy, and the children would come in and bother me when I was studying. It was difficult going back and telling the mom that "[This is what] I would like in the house and I would like you to support it." I was seeing myself as a burden to them, and I never wanted to disturb them.
Also, electricity was a challenge in terms of studying. It was sometimes hard to study because of this, so it forced me to come up early to the school. I was coming as early as 5:00 a.m. to the school and leaving late in the evening, as I knew when I would go back to my place I would use a lamp or candle, which strained my eyes.
The woman who was helping me passed away when I was in secondary school, so it became a challenge to pay rent in the house I was staying in. When I talked with the social department in the school, they looked at my situation and said we will support you during your time in the school. At times you had to struggle to get food and to pay rent and felt that you were in a mess. Sometimes you had to sneak out of classes to go out and sell water and collect garbage in order to make some money. I wanted to support myself and not just live in a life of being over-dependent. I didn’t want to be over-dependent and stress people, so I started looking for my own ways to survive. Those were the other challenges I was facing, as I had to do this during my school time.
I found that my brothers also wanted to see me and wanted to be a part of what I do. I found that I was not concentrating, as I told you that at one time they tried to pick me up and force me to go home. It was a challenge as I was struggling on one side, and they were struggling on the other side to bring me to their side, and yet, things are not working. Today, I am on good terms with most of my brothers. There are some in Nairobi and some that are up country, but we still see each other because of the situation we are in.
I tell myself, the challenges, as much as they are challenges in life, I have to avoid issues—that is, I have to be focused on [my life now and] not really dwell on my past. I tell myself that I have to assume that nothing happened, and I am in a new chapter and I have to go on no matter what the situation is.
How does St. Aloysius guide you so that you are successful in entering into college?
After the community service, you know you have to be in college. Around February, the results from the exams are out. In the university forms when you apply before your exams, you apply that your first choice may be law and your second choice is something else, but when your results are out, you might find that your grades are not what you expected, and you might not be able to be taken to university. During this time, we have counseling sessions, and along with this, normally, St. Aloysius invites learning institutions—the colleges and universities—to come and share what they do as an institution. The motivational speakers who come in help you make up your mind. During your six months in the community service program, you are being introduced to people who have been in this situation and people who have experience—if it is business, you are brought people who do business—so they can tell you what you need to do to do this type of cause. So from these and the counseling sessions, you make up your mind on what you want. The parent or guardian has to come and sign that this is the subject that you want to pursue and after this, you are presented to the program and find out the universities that you can attend and the dates that they begin.
Do you have any other comments, insights, or stories that you would like to tell about St. Aloysius or your endeavors since completing your education?
Today, when I look at myself, I am sure that Father Terry is my mentor in everything that I do, for the reason that when I look at him and see the vision that he has been having and his vision of seeing the school growing to where it is today, it makes me want to follow a vision and ensure that anything that I have started also has to go to a level than where I started from. Focus, determination, and hard work is what will get me there. I believe that anybody who is focused, anybody who has this type of determination and you are really working hard, you will be where you want to be.
St. Aloysius is going to go places and really excel in everything. When I was looking around the school today [4], I saw that it had an elevator, and I thought to myself, when I was looking at Kenyan schools, I am not sure if there is another school with an elevator. When you study in hardship, you tend to work hard. Where we were in the slum, you could smell all the rubbish in the air and hear all the noises from the surroundings, but now in a comfortable place, you might think, we have reached Canaan and have left Egypt—we have left the suffering and can enjoy milk and honey, so we can forget everything that brought us there. I tell people don’t enjoy the building, enjoy the education because the building can be one of the best, yes, but if you are not concentrating on your education, you will not see the results. If you do not focus, it will be better if you go back to the slums and start working hard from there, where you say, "I want to make the best out of this structure [rather] than be in a good structure and become the worst." I know the focus is what will drive us.
Myself, yes, I’ve grown in hardships, but I don’t let my hardship stop me there. I have to keep moving no matter the distance.
- Since 2002, the Kenyan government has attempted to provide universal free primary education, but secondary education has tuition and fees even in the government-established public schools.
- Upon graduating in November, Kenyan students sit the Kenyan Certificate in Secondary Education examination to determine placement for different tertiary programs, including winning a seat in the coveted top public and private universities. Results of this test come in February, which is during the six-month community service program at St. Aloysius.
- Kibera was one of the most violent and unstable areas during the post-election violence following the contested presidential election results in January 2008.
- The school moved from the heart of Kibera to the outskirts of the slum in June 2010, marked by the formal opening of the brand new facility on June 20, 2010.
