 My favorite humans in the whole wide world, how you doing? You know what I'm going to explain to you? I'm not going to explain to you, but to the extent of how or to what extent? This is the face painting that I've been doing since I was a kid. I'm going to tell you how much I love you, how we together. You can see it on Facebook, on Twitter, on Twitter. The hashtag is why in the morning or WCW. Just basically, if I can break it down to Lisa, how to yolo responsibly. Yes, that is the best way I know how to put it out to you. How to yolo responsibly. How do we live our best lives without actually reducing or your lifespan? Because it's possible. Yolo sometimes nuskegum toa kina kusama yolo ninda kufanya bitusama ajabu sana. But is that all it is? The big question. Or they're not so big question because you only come and make a copy. Anyway, my name is Valentine or at Kalami Val, but we have a very, very industrious looking set today. They look like they're here to mean business. Let's just find out what it's all about. It's one of my favorite topics. Kiyongiliya girl child, kiyongiliya watui. I like such topics there because society, but anyway, come to Waonekwanza, I want to introduce you to the copy of what they stand for and then we can get into it right quick. We together. Hi guys. Good morning. Good morning. So, I want to say hello to all of you. After you met, how are you? Tukosa. Tukosa. Let's start with you. What's your name? My name is Chris Mateka from Nifunza Academy. Yes. Wherever you are. My name is Roy Sam from Nifunza Online Academy. Yes. Is it the same one? I don't know if it's the same. It's the same. The same thing. Alright, so maybe just tell me in a sentence, both of you can tell me in a sentence what the academy is about and then we'll get into the online learning experience. So Nifunza Online Academy is a web-based platform. It's a website where we just offer content, educational content based with the Kenyan system from PP1 to form 4. Basically, we just partner with Kenyan teachers to offer this content in quality. That sounds nice in theory. Ya, basically, Kenyanda kumgeziya tu na jwa puivu. Sizi tu na provide platform ilamba watu. Sizi winiwa tu fuizi. Sizi na payana kama shule. What you did, ya, we created an online school. Whereas, sasa muntukama, kama, for example, kuna shule, you just come create your school online and then after we create school, wuna create classes. Nomura classes. Amba ikuna, the normal programs the shule kama timetable breaks nini. So wana puja, ya. So tumawanda tu this, ila nini, ila shule, amba tu mezoia, kila siku wa puivu kanda shule, liutu meilata online. Inapa ono exactly watu. Sizi tu me create shule, na tafta wa limu wana kujiupunza waka u shule. Ya. Was it because of the COVID-19? Ya, not really because of the COVID-19, but it's something that has been there for some time. We've been doing tushuns. On holiday tushun, we've been doing it actually online. So instead of going to school, meeting someone, we've been asking teachers to come and teach their students online. It's something that has been there, but because of this COVID, ya. It has worked to your advantage now. I'm not really at advantage, but it's an opportunity, so we've seen, and then so that you can help actually those who are at home. Ya. Munga kama limu, kusha wufunzi ya ki? Ata siji wa tukfuza. Ah, chunguza yu story, mi pimakali a talent na hujuwe. Alright. So a couple of things that I saw, or I feel, not I feel, or I saw and I read that, you know, there are kind of guidelines for how a child should study online. Kus I imagine even individual schools out there, already established schools, maybe zili wa shule on the ground, but sayi because of the situation, because of isolation, mambyatukai kuanyumba, nini, they've tried to also do online things. So I feel like this is a very good system, but I also feel like it may have a few holds because we are a third world country and we are not balanced. We are not balanced at all. We cannot comfortably say that kilam tuto aneza have access to smart phone. Ata yende tuk, kwa kibanda tuk flani, apewa tukasimu, kaku kuksoma tuk for that day na lipembao, it's still not a very big possibility, isn't it? Yes. That's true. But I want us to look at the pros and the cons. Maybe for those who can, let's tell them that they can do it like this. For those who can't, maybe we can figure out something to tell you because we gotta say something. Sinto chuchu nwa penda wote venye mko. So the first one is create a learning space for your child. And I think this is fantastic because wunajwa kukwan ako kakasport kaku soma, see, it makes sense. It's really a sense. So you even go and even ebu fafa nwa kwa anza. Like right now, wunja inikitime tupata abrupt, we didn't know. But you need now a learning space for our kids at home. Maybe you can change one of the rooms to be a learning space. For example, take your sitting room, zima TV kila kitu and just creating a learning environment at least make sure that that kid at home is comfortable learning. Kusuna jukuna vituzina destruct. There's a lot of destructives actually out there. Kusuna zaku na soma, mkina me pia kelele enje, wuna soma, brada akomama, turunyumu dogama pia kelelele. So those are the things most of the teachers in our face. So we need to create a very conducive environment for these kids to learn. At least dedicate a room. If you don't have a room, kama ni nyumbandogo, like when we do, dedicate even a sitting room, a space for these kids to learn because they need that space. Concentrations pani ato tu ni kikidogo sana. Ata mi mi, wacha wacha ato, ata mi mi sometimes my concentration span is ridiculous. Concentrations pani ato tu ni kikidogo sirazi. Wuna zaku na funza, wana tu ma li mo na una tuwa. Putu ni nene tuw na una. Tukana screen tuw na una. Nama gina mi toh kama hendasi yukufa ni ni. Gina mi amesilaitu wa na brada ake. Gina mi chukulua mi wutu wa nasi stake. Gina mi maka na toh kajikoni kama siya mi ma vahanje anapita. So you see, these are public for them. So it imetu pata anaveya. So we need to create that environment kabisa. That space at least to assume to give it like 10, 5 minutes umdota aso ame because online you are not supposed to take long online. Abu give me that concept? Why are we not supposed to stay long online? Why? Because in a regular classroom in a regular classroom there is usually interaction with the teachers and for women kusha dapu kiswani sijui dapu sijui mada matrix. Mada matrix. Ah, na yasai na NLB are not long. Eh, jkwana fi gwae dapu ke muna choka. In a regular classroom kuna hi interaction na teacher. But this is online especially as we do both live and pre-recorded videos for the pre-recorded videos if a teacher ame prepare for one topic and akuja in your topic ita take like X amount of time. Sayo ha interact na watui. So you video ke kwa online mtu itu ana skiza. Hata interact na molim. That's now for the pre-recorded. That's why now it will take a shorter time as compared to like a regular classroom. But for our live classes there is interaction so you ita take a bit longer. And also to na trying eku like make the lessons very creative as creative as possible ndo to keep mtu iya si bo eke. You know like kuna distraction smob. So at least mtu iya ke ona like ui ticha na go outside the box ama lesson ina leto ina different scenario like from the classroom ina waki pingi like interested in the classes. Eh, that means hata wata wata kukua tech service. So at least wana ona na summer online bla bla bla. So ita wapa ya like motivation akiru di bak shule watashanga izi vi tuzu wa kaji things like that. So we try to encourage our teachers wa eke their lessons as creative as possible. And any teacher actually outside there who is doing online classes because there are so so many teachers actually using actually borrowed platforms to teach online. So it's really really it's a hard time because you need to make your lesson interactive online. Without that actually you can't make it. Nya kwa malimu ni calling. Ni calling. Nya kwa malimu ni calling. Ni calling. Now we are seeing yeah. Haji ni mbalimu now we are seeing ok. Right. The benefit of making a schedule is that the child will have a program in their mind. Make a routine for the kids. Taking a scenario whereby the household has multiple kids. There is a child whose 2 years old doesn't go to school. There's an older child or they have children of different classes. So when you make a routine as schedule these children So, in the morning, hata amka ki fukiria doing other things, because at a shule wa na amkanga wa kijua, like, nine to kona home science or something. So it will create, like, a program in their heads as well. They won't have the mind to do other things outside of education. That's why it's very important to create a schedule and stick by it so that they don't, they don't, like, wasilege, they don't do other things and then they'll be programmed to the system. So they'll be, like, committed to education, because we give them assignments, we give them homework. So they'll be, like, wata kwa wana look forward to the classes here. As well in itaji, a lot of commitment from the parents as well, because they'll be overlooking the studies. So hata kwa na anangali wa watu iwa, ke ulu kwa na lessons ambili umefanya. So at least, ok, kwa strict in that way, ita keep the students in check. So it's important to have a good training. I want to ask you what happens when a student ama mwenyesasa na fakusoma izi ma online or others. What happens if they are part of a household, like, kia pia nibredwina, naia sihasol, aspohasol yani kuna mtu atakosa kukula. What if it's not very realistic for them to be very strict on their schedule? Like, yes, they might intend to and they really want to, but sometimes life is just life. No, it's a challenge. It's a challenge now. We're talking about the gadgets now here, because for online school, you need a gadget. And the same gadget that you're using, jubaba kumanda naia jo. Sasa skia na hai. The same gadget na tumiwa puiwa ama the same gadget na tumiwa, kuna sista kuku fomfo anaitu miwa, weklasia kuku imundu yosa, you know, it's a challenge. So actually, apundu challenge tukuna aia kabisa. We need to get, saiza tasi kama governorza ingile, payana toa, aia zi ma laptop zili kwa zi na payana wa. No kumukazia laptop. Oh yeah. Was it per student, per child amili kwa per school? Yeah. Yeah. I think it is, you know, times in ita jika sasa. Yeah. So kila mtoto, kila mtoto sasa, I'll have his or her own gadget, kwa zi ni nini, yo ni challenge. Kwa zi mo mobile phone mao juna tumiwa, yo gadget mao juna tumiwa, jubaba kanda kutumiwa job. Yeah. Sina manisha akiru di juni duna tumiwa. So as teachers up on, awa ni ni, awa suwa na fuunzo ko inje. Awa lima na fuunzo ko inje saizi. At least try to come up with something in ita keta form. Somebody mo ni, amili mii sila suwa ni ako. Kus right now, those borrowed platforms that we're using right now, they need you to be there at that particular time in the fuunzoe. Actually kama kwa kwa poivo, they doesn't know, those teachers doesn't know that ui umtoto ko nyumba ni hana ni. So rana their attendance in that class actually is poor. Yeah. You're supposed to have at least 100% attendance per class. Kama tse mo kuna grade 4, ina fuwa kwa live at this particular time. Nani the same gadget, sista kwa klazei ito na tumiwa, na parentata prefer, ula klazei ita, asoma fsana kwa uiwa grade 4. So rana you need to cater for that grade 4 kid, amili mii. How are you going to do that? Yeah. How is she or he going to catch up what you learned, what you taught at that particular time, kama kuna gadget. So the big challenge upon a gadget. Yeah. And internet. Apo kwen, bandol siki. Bandol. I wanted to say something, but we are not supposed to just outwardly call out netred subscriber. But kuna mwenyanakulaga bandol skalif zibiyat. So what? Ushai onam tutanenakui banyanaw siki. So unafaniw, unasoma. Asuka malimu bandol. Bade nukuli bandol zana pigakilare. Malimu bandol zinaisha. In the next 2 seconds, are you conline? Not on and off line? Yeah. I am a miss. So how as a tutor, how are you going to cater for that kid? If you really want that kid to miss. Marku, these teachers when you are on the online, they are requesting those kids to actually subscribe to the channel. Yeah. You need to pay for it. Kus umo limu kuhomba de ao zi kanja. So it doesn't take a person. Yeah. But the limu ma miss. But the limu ma miss. One takes a person. When someone wants one who asks people to subscribe to their online platform. Maybe WhatsApp. One of them is afraid of WhatsApp. So they are live with other platforms. So how are you going to cater for this kid who can't have anyone to see. Plans and stream online. Oh mooi w motorulunсе musuengu but they are online friend of you. Kesho to meet? That is heartbreaking. Online is a challenge. Each came on a table. Yes, online, online is a challenge. So, wait for Kesha. I'm his opponent to taftu mwali wu mkul. I missed this. How are you going to tell? Alright, so nimona pa reach out to your child's teachers another point. But what happens? Kama sumas na ticha piyana taka zamajo. I must do the masks. And it's a mask. They're very responsible, it's them. They all have their masks in hand. And taka zamask? Mwali mataka mask, koze zi nimi. What if I have five children? So na jo akuna iso homestead manze, wa toto nimi mob, kipatko patko, lafuz na fatana ki stay asebi. Wamuisho hundi wa baro na nyonejas, jiyu wu mingine na mojako klasi, wu mingine na kufumfo. Who am I going to pay for? Does that mean how in gine pay out asoma? Like what's going on? No, in nifonze, when you pay a subscription, you're able to access all the classes. So if you have multiple children, as long as you've subscribed either weekly or monthly, you'll be able to... That's why now the schedule comes in. That's why now you'll arrange for every child at what time they'll access their classes. Coz once you pay, every child will be able to access their class. Kuna bai one, get one free. I give you three children, the fourth one is free. And it's there by the... Kuna meza zal twanbe, manze ni kuna twanne. It's not just that. Nini, ajok. Kuna wawili secondary, nani kuna wawili primary school. So manze, tukifawiki fanyatili, pay even even even, how we're going to help you. We're going to give you, kuna arrangement nana zafanyatili. Kuna arrangement, actually even people what they should do. That's something they should borrow from us. Actually unona, kutami platformetu, nana zatimi one subscription, kawana zal login, nana zal login at the same time. How is the login at the same time? At least have the same, unona zakwana the same. Situ nana kukubali wakatili swatwani na. Okay, wiki ingizu watotu unona zakwani wakatili nani. So unona zal learn as this, learn as this, at a certain reduced fee. Ya. So ni kungia, ni gameia kungia? So ina reduce wini watotu wa kuhengi. Thanks God. Actually we got more than in subscription same, but kwa wengi zina ina reduce, kwanbewan. Accessibility features help your child. What does that mean? See which accessibility features help your child. Time table. That's the time table. Let's call it time table. Tweet it with time table. Kwa zini shule, kwa zini shule tufani vituza shule. Shule kuna break. Shule kuna nanda angale time table kuna nini. Okise mas schedule, yo apana. Tutsumi ya time table. Nasi kia kusema kakuna lounge. Nasi kia kusema kakuna lounge. Kwa zini kula lounge yo nila? Kwa zini. Kwa zini. Alright. So okina na imeshkanana yuhi nginia use online provided time tables, provided by the school. So ni kamaan tumeneziji kia yugo. Alafos sakuna ili kua reduce distractions, but yo pia imeshkanana create a learning space for your child. So this is not why you are here, but kwa maunie nu, how do we help those who cannot really access online every day? For example, kwa aizime weekly or monthly subscription, maybe because of lack of funds, maybe lack of accessibility, for whatever reason, how can we say at least, at least, at least atakwa muwezi manze ukumelan kitu before they open the gates, before they open schools again? What you've been doing as me, we've been approaching schools. Some schools identify some students as vulnerable, so some headteachers know some students of their schools can't access these platforms because of lack of gadgets or whatever. So what most of these schools do, they actually pay for their students. They arrange on how these students will get the content. Some of them even give the students gadgets. That's how committed we are as nifons. It's not like monetizing this thing, it's about actually having an impact on society. We've also been trying to reach out to government officials in ministry of education and ministry of ICT because at least if the problem is the gadgets, if the ministry can come in and provide these gadgets for these kids and these kids can get this content through these gadgets, then we all win. So it's a win-win situation. What you're trying to do is bring in as many people as we can to just help impact the society. It's just an initiative that we are really earning to it's a locally made platform nifonzi is locally made by a Kenyan youth that is seeking to help these children. So if you can get all these stakeholders to come in from the ministry and all that, these MPs sivana semanga wakiyom bakura onato mianga they'll do it. So it's a challenge you're giving them actually. They can actually get a lot of votes if they do these things at this time because this is the gap that you're having at the current time. We've been doing some research actually we've been doing some research on all those vulnerable kids because there's a head teacher in Westlands who've really done a good thing really done a very good thing actually Mr. Angerog in Westland he's really done a good thing you see there are some laptops that were provided to schools he identified these students that can't be able to afford and took them took the laptop to these kids because they were not distributed so many of them so actually what he did he identified these students and actually all teachers should copy this he identified the students who actually really need this so they cannot miss out he identified and actually gave them also the internet I don't know how he did that I don't know how he's doing that but I don't know actually he's from VSocial he's a very good teacher he identified the students gave them the laptops and now he made sure that these kids are getting the lessons but we're all human I think we should have hearts hearts of helping Angoja, we are human so that means to send it to where you're always still when you're already in your area so what happens if for example another school somewhere maybe laptops let's say when you have a laptop really let's talk the truth I have a normal so that's why we need to come up with solutions like what we do we are trying to get which is the best form these guys can be able to access use the technology that we have use the technology that we have we are asking even a cyber guys do this that some kids will become here they've been paid for this is the platform so let this kid learn we will pay you the subscription they pay even like a shilling per minute so those kids are able to learn somebody has paid for them they've selected some cyber in a locality even in an interior locality there's a cyber so what they did they selected a cyber if you don't have internet we've got CDs we've recorded them in it let them play the CDs they'll be able to access the learning we're trying to make sure if any online teacher is there you're supposed to try to make sure that you've reached all students whether in a high rank or in a low rank you're supposed to meet every each and every student with any form that you're doing so by identifying cybers take the kids there considering the social distancing of course ma'am zakuwa mingi let me tell you something I think COVID-19 has taught me a lot is possible before this I didn't imagine that kids could learn online in a large space let's say we have kids that they already have tabs as toys we have tabs and laptops so ma'am zakuwa mingi atataka but for people like us on the ground atasimu the first time I started wearing shoes I didn't even feel okay I could not imagine that we could all be online and learn so COVID-19 has taught me but there was a silver lining but there's a heart touching story that I got because we teach online and there are some kids actually they have the gadgets they're talking about as toys actually they went and donated gadgets to some people so they have like three in a home somebody has three gadgets they went and donated there's a problem we started donating education so we donated education so if you have a tablet if you have something that you're not using if you have a gadget that's lying there kindly donate it to somebody who can use somebody else will give the bundles so it's now it's canyons to canyons now you need to help so those are the initiatives you are trying to push out you need to help let each and every kid get an education so it is just an initiative and as youth initiative that we need and maybe in conclusion these teachers that are on this platform are outsourced there may be teachers from kutama wote online we can comfortably say that the education that they are providing these classes that they are giving are legit it's many good qualities whenever we recruit a teacher we confirm with TSC we confirm with TSC wow look at you true we've got a quality assurance there we have a quality assurance team that makes sure that every teacher we have is qualified is up to standard so that you don't just offer content you know if you want to watch a movie two days a laugh or a jam and just go to church actually you confirm with the heritage of that school do you know this guy and then this is the TSC number you can access TSC this is the number so it's like what you want to provide you want to provide quality things you want to provide quality things you want to provide quality things and you are trying to give out to the society you are trying to help the youth because all of them actually also something you have to be a youth it's a youth initiative so most of the youth maybe from Westlands or Kujia and some of them they start to volunteer to teach they start to volunteer to teach and some of them Kujia Westlands, Kujia Youth and some of them volunteer most of them volunteers my favorite thing about both of you and this initiative is Kikita mbo to kwa youth to kwa tu nambiwa so much but look at you starting a whole initiative to help others now we are first of all na kaw na faku subscribe it's very interesting and good job Mali nenda nenda some special place thank you for coming thank you for watching don't go away we still have more for you I try to find from Facebook I try to find for chanon twitter hashtag is why in the morning