Dan graduated from Spurgeons Academy in 2012 then went to high school 2013-16. He attended Miramar International College to study agribusiness for 1 year and is currently at PC Kinyanjui Technical Institute in his second year doing a 4-year course in automotive engineering.
Spurgeons CCK paid Dan’s school fees for all of his primary education as well as providing uniform, shoes and sometimes paying for field trips. Dan comes back to volunteer at Spurgeons as a way of showing his thankfulness for what they did for him. He wants to be a mechanic in the future.
Dan reflects on Spurgeons then and now: ‘I remember how we used to participate in drama competitions and do school plays. And we would have rice and beans twice a week and occasionally ugali as well. Now the children eat githeri as their lunch time meal. The school buildings have changed, but the smiles on everyone’s faces are still the same. Spurgeons is still an amazing place’.
Dan currently volunteers as an assistant teacher at Spurgeons; he teaches social studies and maths to classes 5, 6, 7 and sometimes 8. In the future he wants to help the needy and give back what he was given. Dan has been volunteering at Spurgeons for 3 months and would like to continue volunteering here in his University holidays when he is back in Nairobi.