{"id":86,"date":"2011-09-19T14:04:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T12:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journalists-committee.com\/?p=86"},"modified":"2017-11-23T20:19:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T18:19:27","slug":"kitchen-furnishings-gombato-secondary-school-in-ukunda-kenya-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.journalists-committee.com\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"Kitchen furnishings, Gombato Secondary School in Ukunda, Kenya (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ukunda is located on the south-east coast of Kenya, approx. 30 km south of Mombasa in direction of Tanzania.<\/p>\n

For the teachers at Gombato Secondary School providing children with the compulsory school meal used to be a real hazard: As they only had a kitchen hut with flints at their disposal, they would often suffer severe burns on their arms while preparing the meals. Consequently, the school planned to erect a kitchen as an extension of the school building. The donated money was used to purchase the kitchen furnishings, namely a double sink unit with a large drainer, a large double-burner gas stove on a solid iron frame, and a gas cylinder. The Committee\u2019s donation was handed over on site by Anka Seela from Freising, Germany.
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The school is being expanded one classroom at a time by the students\u2019 parents who work with donated building material. In addition to new classrooms, they have so far built a toilet block and the new kitchen. Construction is supervised by a German hotelier who frequently donates building material and makes sure that donations are actually used for upgrading the school. <\/span><\/p>\n