Chairperson BOM

Our school provides the best facilities, ample learning environment for our students,  assured by close collaboration  among parents, teachers and other  staff to achieve the best in academic  performance and discipline.  

As a result, our school offers the  best opportunities to girls who at  risk of dropping out of school due to  parents’ inadequate interest in girls’  education, gender discrimination,  inequality in access to education  and high poverty levels. Our school  stands as a beacon of hope, serving as an inspiration to most parents who  are caught between embracing their  cultural dictates that subject girls  to retrogressive cultural practices  such as female genital mutilation and early marriages;  to securing social  and economic  transformation  for their future  through transition  

and completion of their secondary education. High levels of poverty, compounded by cultural challenges, leave many parents struggling to meet their girls' education needs, with girls at risk of dropping out of school due to lack of fees and vulnerability to early pregnancies. Our school remains a safe haven to girls at risk of FGM, early marriages and other challenges. Despite the limited resources, our school continued efforts to champion and contribute to the achievement of goals of Kenya’s Ministry of Education, Kenya Vision2030 and the global  Sustainable Development Goal  (SDG4) in fighting gender inequality  in access to secondary education and  empowerment of girls most at risk of  being left behind are not thawed. As the school Board of Management (BoM), we are committed to sustaining and  enhancing an enabling and conducive  environment for learning for  our students, for their academic  excellence, discipline and prosperity.  To achieve this, the BoM strives  towards the school vision “To make  Rombo Girls’ the best secondary  school in our country,” while  supporting and accompanying the  school leadership, management and staff, hardworking and disciplined  students, and their supportive parents  and guardians to deliver together as a team.

Our current total students’ population of 640 girls, 29 teachers and 17 members of the support staff; and having transited a total of 632 girls who completed school since its establishment in 2009, with 147 girls attaining direct university entries is a true reflection of our school growth  and development that continues to  remain steady.  

Our efforts have continued to bear  fruits. In 2020, our school emerged  position two in K.C.S.E in Loitokitok  Sub-County. This would not have  been possible without combined effort  from our teachers, students, and  parents. We congratulate our 2019  students for flying our school flag  high. Our special acknowledgment and appreciation to all teachers who  taught and accompanied the students  in delivering their best in academics  despite the limited school resources.  To our school Principal, Sr. Margaret  Lydia and overall management;  receive hearty congratulations for  leadership and commitment to bring  the best out of our students – in talents, academic achievement and  discipline. As a STEM model school,  we continue to inspire and model  girls’ capacities in science subjects  among other model schools in the  country. No doubt the school nurtures  all-round students, prepared to take  on the world in all disciplines. We owe  this to great team spirit as we strive to  scale to higher heights. Together we can do it, even better. 

We have made tremendous  progress in the development of our  school to date and we are constantly challenged to do and achieve even more. We note with great importance  and urgency to address the  

infrastructural and staffing challenges  that the school is struggling with.  The need to secure resources for the  construction of 12 class rooms, 2  laboratories, a modern library, secure  the school with a permanent perimeter  wall, a school van, staff houses, a  store, secure more TSC teachers  and support staff remains our main  focus. As the BoM, we have put in  place plans to address some of these  gaps. However, we have challenges  of accessing the much-needed  financial resources to realize them.  We call upon all parents, partners, and  stakeholders in the education sector  and beyond to join us, walk with us  and support our efforts to ensure that  the school meets the national and  global standards for better results. As a school, we will continue to  evaluate the situation and ensure all COVID-19 guidelines are followed  to protect our girls from risks of  infection. The school will continue motivating the girls to give their best at all times, with the top achievers’  efforts recognized in an Annual Prize  Giving Day. Your girl is one of the  potential top achievers!! 

On behalf of the BoM, a body fully constituted and made up of 15  members, of whom 7 are female and  8 males from diverse professional  and experience background, I hereby  acknowledge direct and indirect  efforts of all school stakeholders in  the successes realized so far. BoM is  committed to leaving no girl behind  and strives to make St Maria Goretti  Rombo Girls Secondary School the best in our county and nationwide.  Our girls’ success is our success.  

As the Chair of the BoM, and  hailing from Rombo, the host  community of this school, I am truly privileged and honored to have the  opportunity to contribute to this  school. I am a living testimony of the  power of educating a Maasai girl. I  am empowered and able to access global opportunities because I went  to school. It’s a girl’s right just like it is the boy’s right to access education.  No girl should be denied education,  

regardless of her culture, religion,  social or economic status or any other  factors. Her future, that of her family  and the community depends on her  education. If you educate a girl, you  educate the community and the entire  nation.