Removing Barriers to Education for Street Children in Kenya: Impact Assessment of Jitegemee's Formal Schooling Program

Since 1996 Jitegemee has worked to rehabilitate street children in Machakos, Kenya, equipping them with practical and academic knowledge and providing them with a network of support to help them reintegrate into their communities. The organization’s Formal Schooling Program strives to remove the many critical – namely financial - barriers to education that exist for primary, secondary and university students in Kenya so that they can focus all of their energy on getting ahead in school. This year, a team of SIPA students was asked to perform the first ever outside evaluation of the Formal Schooling Program. Their main task was to conduct a comprehensive impact assessment of the program, with an emphasis on health and social outcomes for participating primary school students and their families.