• Workshops - GCG conducts numerous workshops and seminars to mobilize and encourage youth with the goal of envisioning successful future through education. Workshops and seminars are also employed to increase enrolment in schools and raise awareness in gender disparities.
• Recognition - GCG identifies talented and dedicated teachers and administrators, and rewards them accordingly. Certificate of outstanding performance is awarded annually to two best teachers.
• Technology - Use of computers, overhead projectors and other teaching aids are encouraged to enhance effective delivery of educational materials to students.
• Mentoring - We strongly believe mentoring is extremely valuable and will impact communities positively locally and globally and will have a replicating effect into the future. As such, the availability of successful role models as mentors is exceedingly important and we invite them to become partners in changing the world for a better tomorrow.
• Scholarships - GCG is involved in securing admissions and scholarships from local and international colleges and universities for students after successful completion of secondary education. Scholarships are also availed to needy students in secondary schools. This is achieved through the generosity of individuals or organizations who share our vision of 'helping today's youth for a better tomorrow'.
• Annual Conference - GCG organizes an annual conference to evaluate progress made in the past and sets yet better future goals that are realistic and attainable for students, mentors, teachers and parents.

Past and Present Partners in Projects: We would like to thank the following organizations and institutions for their generosity, their help and unconditional partnership with the GCG. We are proud to call them partners in local and gloabl change and growth.

United States:

• Abbott Northwestern Hospital - MN
• Park Nicollet foundation - MN
• Methodist Hospital - MN
• Multicultural Center for Academic Excellence (MCAE) - MN
• Somali Student Association - University of MN - MN
• The Somali Communities of Minnesota
• Feed my Starving Children (FMSC)
• Dar-Alhijra Cultural Center
• Umat-al-Islam

Kenya:

• Aldef - Wajir
• Woman Kind - Garissa
• Mandera District Hospital
• Wajir District Hospital
• Grassia Provincial Hospital
• Mandera Secondary School
• Moi Girls Secondary School
• Garissa High School

 

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ACCESS TO EDUCATION IN NORTH EASTERN PROVINCE

In Central Province the gross enrolment rates in primary school in 2000 was 106% compared to only 17.8% in North Eastern Province . The corresponding figures for secondary school for the two regions are 37.7% and 4.5%, respectively. There are also wide disparities in the pupil-teacher ratio at the provincial levels (Pulling Apart 20).

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LITERACY BY GENDER AND REGION, % (KENYA)

	Literacy		No education
Province	Female	Male	Female	Male
Nairobi	91.8	94.2	5.6	4.9
Central	91.1	94.4	2.6	1.5
Coast	65.6	88.2	29.6	10.0
Eastern	81.6	91.7	8.4	3.5
N. Eastern (NEP)	6.4	29.5	93.4	71.1
Nyanza	79.8	89.4	7.1	1.8
Rift Valley	73.2	83.9	17.4	10.2
Western	77.4	84.4	9.0	3.4
Kenya	78.5	88.1	21.6	13.8
Source: 2003 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey

While 92% of women in Nairobi are literate only 6.4% are literate in North Eastern Province . For men, corresponding figures for Nairobi and North Eastern Province (NEP) are 94.2% and 29.5% respectively (pulling Apart 44 ).

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ANNUAL NATIONAL ASSESSMENT EXAMS: KCPE AND KCSE (2003) (Ali M.M.)

PRIMARY SCHOOLS (2003)
KCPE results/2003 Top 100 students per province: Max possible score: 500

Province	High score in top 100	Low score in top 100	Boys (%)	Girls (%)
Central	482	458	67	33
Eastern	473	442	74	26
R. Valley	478	450	77	23
Western	473	436	70	30
Nyanza	472	436	85	15
Nairobi	479	446	47	53
Coast	463	427	69	31
NEP	435	343	84	16

KCPE: Kenya certificate of primary education
KCSE: Kenya certificate of secondary education

The best in NEP could not be ranked among the top 100 students in any other province (except coast).

Highest and lowest among the top 100 students per Province

Girls Vs Boys

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SECONDARY SCHOOLS (2003)

KCSE results top 100 students per province: %

Province	High in top 100	Low in top 100	Boys (%)	Girls (%)
Central	81.85	73	86	14
Eastern	82.99	70.1	69	31
R. Valley	81.28	71.43	67	33
Western	80.28	68.71	70	30
Nyanza	80	70.4	97	3
Nairobi	84.57	74	59	41
Coast	81.7	66.28	66	34
NEP	69.74	46	97	3

Highest and Lowest among the top 100 students per province

Girls Vs Boys

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East African Standard Editorial June 6th

NEP leads from below
Kenya 's North Eastern Province has earned itself the dubious distinction of enrolling the least numbers of girls in primary schools in the whole world.

Unicef, in fact, says that the number of boys enrolled in NEP's primary schools is double that of the girls and this despite the fact that education at this level is free.

But that is not the whole story. The Provincial Director of Education, Mr Elly Osiemo, was quoted yesterday as saying that 80 per cent of NEP's school age children, that is some 200,000 of them, are out of school.

The foregoing compound NEP's education problems because the province does not fare well in national examinations be it at the primry or secondary school level.

Who will lead the way in stemming this slide in the provinces's education standards?

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