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Date: 28.06.2016
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Kibaki's former
school cuts costs
with own bakery
BY BONIFACE MWANGI
Increasing inflationary pressure has
seen a secondary school in Othaya,
Nyeri set up a bakery within its
compound as an income earner and
a way of cutting the cost of supplying
feeding the 800 Karima Boys stu­
s would cost the school as much
h20,000 every day.
'Each of our students gets half a
of bread every morning. This is
bread to students.
Karima Boys High School's bakery
feeds the institution's 800 students,
its resident teaching and non­teach­
ing staff while surplus bread is sold to
igh to sustain them up to lunch
enabling them concentrate in
3," says Mr Wanjau.
We get ingredients such as wheat
from a miller in Thika while oth­
ments as well as expand its dairy
farming and introduce pig rearing
on a commercial basis.
Presently, the school has three
dairy cows that supply the institu­
tion with 30 litres of milk per day, also
cutting the cost of preparing tea for
their students and teachers.
Mr Wanjau says this year's savings
will bespenton buying at least eight
more dairy cows to boost production
the neighbouring community.
School principal Herman Wanjau
re sourced locally. We trained one
told Enterprise that the bakery pro­
< who trained the others."
duces more than 400 loaves of bread
\part from feeding the students,
bakery also supplies at least
oaves of bread per day to the
by Consolata Primary School
Food makers pass the high cost of
raw materials to consumers, raising
the prices of basic commodities.
a35 each, much lower than the
as Karima Boys to invest in projects
that save them thousands of shillings
in recurrent expenditure while also
enabling the institutions to suffi­
ciently feed their students.
Such income generating initia­
tives, which are being embraced
by more schools, especially in coun­
ties outside Nairobi, com at a time
when the government is pushing
daily, translating into savings of over
Shl20,000 a month.
"We started implementing the bak­
ery project several years back as part
ketrate.
of our efforts to save funds and ensure
that our boys have enough to eat in the
morning," he says.
Buying and installing the bak­
ing equipment cost the school about
Shl50,000, money Mr Wanjau says
was sourced from a savings kitty which
generates most of its funds from the
school's dairy project.
The school principal says this was
a small cost to incur given the savings
they were going to make as well as the
low maintenance and operations cost
of the bakery which is manned by three
ilyfood
school, which is former President
ai Kibaki's primary school alma
,er before it was upgraded, now
is to expand the project to sup­
bread to even more neighbouring
itutions.
and further cut costs.
This has forced institutions such
unds from the expanded venture,
Wanjau added, would be used to
public institutions to become more
independent.
j the school diversify its invest­
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people. The students help in cutting the
bread to size.
Soaring prices of wheat and other
ingredients have pushed the price a loaf
of bread to about Sh50 each, meaning
Ipsos Kenya ­ Acorn House,97 James Gichuru Road ­ Lavington ­ Nairobi ­ Kenya
ABOVE: Karima
Boys High School
principal Herman
Wanjau atthe
school bakery
with some of his
students. LEFT: A
student inspects
bread at the bakery.
BONIFACE MWANGI
Business Daily
Date: 28.06.2016
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