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BRIGHT LIGHT ACADEMY
EDUCATION IS LIGHT
Empowering Kenyan Children Through Education. Together we will make a difference!
Bright Light Academy is unique. We are a non-profit, non-governmental, primary and elementary school in Rusinga Island, Kenya offering free tuition, medical care, food, uniforms and study materials to all our students. In Kenya many communities like ours start their own private schools. Without any help from the government we rely on generous donors like you. Our mission is to provide educational opportunities to young children from disadvantaged families who face significant hardship.
Beginning a Bright Light education journey is a first step into a future of untold possibilities.
Our school began its journey in 2019 with only twenty primary age students and one dedicated teacher. Since then, Bright Light has grown to serve eighty students and a team of six educators.
Nutrition and
Food Security
A critical component of the Bright Light mission is nutritional support. Our students are provided with two free meals each day. Food equals energy. Energy promotes motivation. Motivation excites aptitude. Aptitude fuels learning.
Education Starts Early at Bright Light
Our Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) program begins with Bright Light’s youngest students. Art, song and painting bring creativity to life. Words on the page begin to have meaning. Numbers begin to make sense. An early foundation for learning comes alive in the classroom.
Tools for Learning are key to achieving goals
Every semester Bright Light distributes free school supplies, including books, pens, writing paper, and personal diaries to our students. These tools advance their way towards a brighter future. Along with a comprehensive curriculum and dedicated teachers, knowledge grows.
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Visiting Nurse Care is Free for all Students
Rusinga has many medical challenges and a limited health care infrastructure that students’ families can’t afford or walk to. Bright Light’s visiting nurses bring support for good health with monthly examinations, diagnoses, medications, keeping careful records and classes for parents in home hygiene and basic medical care.
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Building Kenya's Next Generation of Leaders
Bright Light doesn’t just invest in academic excellence.
We invest in our students. Igniting self-confidence, curiosity and motivation is part of the curriculum. And we don’t ignore life skills. We encourage them. They are also the building blocks of advancement. Excited young students already talk about being teachers, doctors, engineers, even astronauts.
Planting the Seeds of Female Empowerment
Starting in grades two and three, our young Empowerment Class girls learn they have the same rights as boys and that their ambitions and dreams are achievable when they believe in themselves.
Bright Light Encourages Commitment to a
Sustainable Future
Kenya’s future environmentalists learn to appreciate and protect their country’s magnificent beauty, abundant wildlife, and natural resources.
Growing food at our school is serious fun! Students learn to cultivate vegetables on smaller amounts of land, with high yield and using less water. “Sustainable” as a way of life is an idea that also begins to grow at the Bright Light Smart Farm Garden.
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Knowledge is Power and Education
is the Path to Get There.
We teach our students to have goals. Bright Light Academy also has a goal – to offer a full elementary school education through the sixth grade. Right now, our students graduate and leave us after the third grade, and this is just too young.
When they leave Bright Light, for financial and distance reasons many of them cannot continue their education in the Kenyan public school system. Several students drop out and their education ends at eight or nine years old.
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