The Student Movement for Real Change (SMRC) took action to improve Gogoraruhe Primary School in Kenya. They provided much-needed school supplies like chalk, notebooks, pens and paper for 300 pupils after finding the school only had a box of supplies. SMRC then worked with the community to build a new school, providing unskilled labor, and completed construction of a facility with classrooms, latrines, and a rainwater catchment system to replace learning under a tree with no materials.
4. A box of school supplies from Gogoraruhe exhibits the dearth of materials prior to SMRC involvement with the school. The box was the entire inventory of materials at the school at the time. SMRC provided chalk, notebooks, pens, paper for up to 300 pupils.
5. SMRC decided to take action and build a new School for the children