Please note we are working on a new website so some of these stories are a bit dated.
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Keeping Going During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Schools in Kenya have been closed since 15th March. All of the schools that the Mwezi Foundation supports are in rural locations and the students live in very poor conditions. We have been unable to communicate with the teachers but we assume that it is unlikely any significant home learning has taken place, due to…
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The First Mwezi Solar Light Audit
One of the challenges we face is ensuring that our Mwezi lights are well looked after. We give light libraries of 16 lights to schools, who then lend them to pupils in remote homes. The pupils should share the lights between themselves so they can be accountable to each other. Occasionally a light will go…
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The results are in….
The 40 schools which the Mwezi Foundation supports in Kenya are sharing their KCPE results with us. These are the end of primary school exams which pupils take in order to progress to secondary school. We measure what difference our lights make by the improvement in average score and by the pupils achieving the highest…
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Welcome to our New Website!
Mwezi Foundation new website address We are delighted to be back up and running with our new website address. We have been publishing updates on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, but can now add much more content to the website. One of our direcctors, Claire, visited some of our schools projects in July 2019 with her…
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Mikomani produces Outstanding Exam Results using their Mwezi Solar Lights
Mikomani Primary School have achieved an amazing result, with three students achieving over 400 marks in their end of school exams. With over 100 students in the class, and just 30 Mwezi lights (we will be giving them more ASAP!), they allocated one light permanently to Prisca, who used it to study morning and evening. …
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Olympian George Nash MBE becomes a Patron of the Mwezi Foundation
We are delighted that George Nash MBE has become a patron of the Mwezi Foundation. George is an Olympic rowing gold medallist. He won Olympic Gold at Rio 2016, bronze in the men’s pair at London 2012, and numerous World Championship medals. A Cambridge University engineering graduate, he recognises the importance of a good education and…
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Doing whatever it takes to get solar lights to school children
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Mitsajeni Primary School receives their first Mwezi light library
The 43 students at Mitsajeni Primary School in class 7 can look forward to a brighter future after their school successfully applied for Mwezi lights. Dorcas (at the back of the photo) visited them in February to deliver their first light library of 15 lights. Dorcas was received with honour by a committee including Mr…
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Kikonde School is Standing up for Girls
Kikonde School demonstrates how tough life can be for girls in Kenya. At the Mwezi Foundation we like to celebrate how our lights have enabled schools to raise their average scores in the end of primary school (class 8) exams. However, Kikonde’s average has actually dropped this year. The girls are complaining that their parents…
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Mwezi wins funding from the Souter Charitable Trust
We are delighted to have won funding from the Souter Charitable Trust to enable us to continue our expansion. We have received applications from several schools who would benefit significantly from having solar lights and with this funding we will be able to agree to those applications. What we do at the Mwezi Foundation is…