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Day 7, July 21st: At Kavunyalalo |
The team that day consisted of the Aiducators Mwangudza and Mwadalu and the movie makers Lisi and Enrico. So, I wasn’t there today, I was too busy working in the hospital (my normal job as a clincal research assistant).
We left early in the morning and were recieved by the headmaster in this rural primary school „Kavinyalalo Primary School“ of close to 1200 pupils. In this school, pupils read from as early as 6am -to 9pm. The team witnessed the school filling with students, the morning prayers and disapearence of 1200 students in those tiny buildings and how the prayers were conducted – it was an awesome experience for all of us.
First, they interviewed drop outs, 9 of them - who had never had a chance to attend secondary school, one of them a girl from the village Kakoneni, is now at home helping her parents with shamba work. Most of those students said, they are helping their parents at home and don’t have any access to school.
The film team interviewed two class eight students, one of them was a boy who opted to repeat class eight in order to make it above 350 points in his final exam, only to qualify for our scholarship program! –Last year, this boy missed our cut-off score by 3 points: he was the best student in his class and received 347 out of 500 points! We cross our fingers for you young man!!
The team had a chance to interact with lower class students: They drew pictures of their homestead, while being interviewed of what they were doing.
Lunch was served, bread and damplings (hamri) and goat meat. Enrico and Lisi were too engrossed with filming and missed the beautiful goat!!!
After that, we headed to the village Kakuyuni, there, the film team met a boy who had been at home for the last two weeks, because he couldn’t pay the school fees. He wants to become a doctor. After the interview, the sun was going down and the team was driving off to Watamu, where we are based.
I called the team at 10pm, and was happy to hear that they had covered almost everything they had wanted to cover. The assistant chief was very happy with what AI was doing, at Kavunyalalo.
I met Enrico and Lisi this night and wouh, they were full, saying their hard drives were almost full with material! The documentary material was almost done, they said, what was still remaining was another scholar, James, and some landscape scenery! Since there are so many students in Kenya who are bright and needy and miss school, we had planned so many more interviews! Hearing that the hard drive was almost full already, I was like, „Ooh what happens with the others students? Especially the extreme high potentials from the secondary school in Kabarak? –Their school had given them a go ahead to travel, only for us, only to meet the documentary team! We discussed this and almost convinced, I had to cancel the coming of the students!! I felt very depressed that night.
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