Missions of Hope Mabatini School

Missions of Hope International opened its Mabatini centre in 2008 with 87 children. About 980 learners now attend, from pre-primary to Grade 8, with a staff of 61. Mabatini is a mixed community of roughly 80,000 people in the heart of the Mathare valley, where many parents do casual work, wash clothes or sell small goods, and where MOHI notes a shortage of primary and secondary places. The school follows the Competency Based Curriculum and offers daily meals, while the charity also runs church, health and family programmes from the site.