Daylight Teachers are often young people who have just graduated college. And, like in Teach for America in the U.S., our young teachers volunteer to help Daylight at only a fraction of a usual teacher’s pay. Daylight’s 25 teachers donated $20,000 in volunteer hours per month!
Our four school cooks have children who attend Daylight! After serving and cleaning up 300 bowls, they donate several hours each week to the school. These hours are valued at $400 per month! In addition, the local builders and neighbors who construct our classrooms donate around $1200 in labor each month.
The local businesses give Daylight reduced rates because they believe in the work we are doing. The construction delivery truck company reduces their typical fees by $250 each month.
Relatives of Daylight students, local businesses, and neighbors donate what they can to help Daylight grow. This year they donated bricks and sand to build the K – 3rd grade classroom. Each month they donated around $2,000 in corn, beans, rice, bricks, and donations.
Daylight is also a working farm! With an eye towards sustainability, Daylight produces three tons of corn each year and has five cows. Daylight harvests $12,000 in corn and beans and $50 per month in milk. The corn is in the background and the kids are drinking the milk!
Local politicians, business leaders, and individuals make generous monetary donations to Daylight throughout the year! Daylight is a partnership.
In January 2016, the existing shallow well near Michael’s village in Alale was confirmed to have gone dry. This was the only well that provided water to Daylight Alale school, church, and the surrounding families. The existing pump equipment was removed and the well abandoned.
The next step was to mobilize a very large drilling rig furnished by Majitec to drill.
For the last few years, Sarah and her fellow early elementary school students have been studying (and, as you can see, having fun) in their corrugated tin-walled temporary classroom.
This year, we were able to construct a new brick classroom building for these amazing students to study in! With support from Autumn Ridge Church and local builders, we got the bricks laid and the walls up.
In March, the Autumn Ridge team came and helped roof the classroom.
With support from Kenyan builders, donor Emilie Robinson and Daylight’s US partners, the builders are now busy putting on the finishing touches to get ready for our kids to study in September! 
When the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders come back to school, they will have a great new classroom!
Thank you for supporting Sarah and the rest of the 400 students studying at Daylight!