Training programmes-we are on track

Star rays education Center started in 2002 as a nursery school.  The initiation of the institution was received with due formality by the local community at Nangili in Lugari. However, as a nursery school alone, the institution could not satiate the needs of the local community that was then engulfed in penury while clutching at their only straw-farming, to preclude their sinking into a welter of hunger and poverty.

This meant that the institution, under the tutelage of the Director and founder, Mr. Makechi William, who really understood the gravity of the situation, had to transmute it into a community center to do something that would forestall the worst from happening. Mr. Makechi, working with an amenable team of committee members who were ready to serve the community benevolently with sacrifice and diligence, took a piecemeal approach to establish a community educational center from which farmers in the area could all benefit. This came as a boon to the community as many local farmers, eagerly desirous of knowledge and good harvest were greatly impressed with the move and came out in large numbers during the weekend to gain from the venture.

This is shown clearly by their consistent presence in attendance of the meetings which are nowadays organized in the first week of every month. In the meetings, the institution invites agricultural specialists from various regions in the country to talk to farmers about a specific topic in farming and technological improvements in the economic activity. This has accoutered the farmers with the best skills and practices that they can put in place to ensure maximum harvest with the current environmental conditions in the area. This is evinced in a visit to the village, it can be seen that most farmers are doing well and can even be able to cater to the needs of their families and education of their children just from their little earnings as farmers. We cannot gainsay the fact that a lot still needs to be done to achieve more, but the community is grateful for the little they have-Star rays Education Center.