WHAT IS SPREAD THE LOVE?
Spread the Love is a campaign that seeks to harness people and resources to restore dignity and hope to children and the learning communities within public primary schools in Kenya and beyond. By creating opportunities for people to plug into social and community impact, the campaign focuses on improving the learning conditions of our public primary institutions, with the goal of achieving one million hours of community service annually.
Through the years, the Spread the Love initiative has been instrumental in fostering change within our community, impacting individuals, school and society as a whole.
WHEN DID THE INITIATIVE START?
The Spread the Love initiative started in 2009, and in it’s early years, there was a strong focus on serving both correctional facilites and police stations around the country. Through the years, the campaign undertook significant infrastructure development, social support services, remote parenting programs, and discipleship initiatives at six prisons in Nairobi and one in Mombasa, Kenya.
In addition, work has been undertaken in six police stations in Kenya and one in Uganda, where initiatives such as painting and renovation works, landscaping, empowerment programs and ditribution of welfare packs took place.
In 2016, the inititiave has since changed focus to serve pubic primary schools.
WHY PRIMARY SCHOOLS?
Following the introduction of the Free Primary Education program in 2003, aimed at providing more opportunities for out of school children, public primary schools experienced increased enrolment. Within one year of implementation UNESCO reported that over 1.5 million out of school children joined various public schools.
However, school facilities and infrastructure proved to be a challenge, as classes became congested with limited physical facilities, sanitary and hygiene toilet facilities. The Spread the Love campaign has in the last nine years adopted over 20 public primary schools, and mobilised people and resources to uplift the standards of the infrastructure.
HOW ABOUT LAVINGTON PRIMARY SCHOOL?
Lavington Primary school remains one of the success stories of the campaign. Since 2016, close to Ksh. 9 million (USD 70,000) has been poured into the school, and this has been used to paint and renovate classrooms, renovate the school hall, undertake signficant soft and hard landscaping, renovate the washrooms and install a bio-digestor.
In 2024 the campaign was instrumental in refurbishing the staff and administration block, undertaking paintworks, flooring, electrical and plumbing works, purchasing new furniture and installing two television sets.
WHAT IS THE PLAN FOR 2025?
1 – Refurbishing Classrooms
Painting, fixing floors and replacing black chalkboards with modern white-boards
2 – Renovating toilets
Repainting, tiling, plumbing and electrical works and replacing old urinals with modern metallic versions
3 – Renovating Kitchen
Removing ceiling boards, painting, tiling, installing sinks, refurbishing cookers and clearing chimneys
4 – Refurbishing the school hall
Internal and external hall paint work
5 – Resolve drainage challenges
Sort out drainage challenges in and around the school hall
A second phase will include the building of a new toilet block for the students.
HOW CAN YOU PARTNER?
At the heart of Spread the Love lies the concept of strategic partnerships. By collaborating with schools, government agencies, and local communities, we’ve been able to amplify our impact and effect lasting change. However, we cannot do it alone!
For more information, contact us at
Lavington@mavunochurch.org,
or contact
Patricia on (+254 748 355070).
Contact
| Mavuno Church | |
| P.O Box 27584-00506 | |
| Nairobi, Kenya | |
| (+254) 720-051763 | |
| Info@mavunochurch.org |
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