Dr. Albert Schweitzer School
This is where we provide an enabling environment for our community HIV/AIDS orphans and vulnerable children to realize their full potentials through holistic education ( life skills) they need to transform themselves out of their childhood stigma into valuable future community members.
Learning begins with us at Dr. Albert Schweitzer School Seme, Kisumu County, Kenya.
We, at Dr. Albert Schweitzer School Seme offer supportive and inspirational environments for young HIV/AIDS orphans and vulnerable children from our community. We give our children the opportunity to acquire quality basic education, two meals a day and get involved in extra curriculum activities. We strive to build confident and creative thinkers and aim at delivering an education that is truly relevant to their future considering the fact that these HIV/AIDS orphans and vulnerable children had a lot of stigma in their homes before joining our school. We help our young children {Nursery to Grade 10} to become living testimonies in our community that even HIV/AIDS orphans and vulnerable children are capable of becoming valuable and important people in the society.
We are approximately 45km West of Kisumu Town near the Great Lake Victoria. Our school is situated approximately 3km off Kisumu – Bondo Road from Kombewa or Wangarot junction.
Our School Motto: Primary: Good Start Good End. Secondary: Knowledge is Power.
Vision
A society where every child receives the support he/she needs to develop his/her full potential irrespective of his/her family background.
Mission
To empower our community’s HIV/AIDS orphans and vulnerable children in South Western rural Kenya, through academics, co-curricular activities, mentorship and moulding to overcome challenges and unlock their full potential. We are committed to offering quality basic education, emotional support, and essential life skills that foster resilience, dignity, and hope for the future.
Our Core Values
1. Integrity
2. Empathy
3. Love
4. Excellence
Our Curriculum Overview
We follow our government’s CBE curriculum for all schools in Kenya. Apart from the formal classwork, we also give our children the opportunity to participate in extra curricular activities which give them the opportunity to explore their talents in various fields through music, drama, ballgames, debate, athletics, fashion show, drawing, painting among other extra curricular activities. Through the formal education and the extra curricular activities, we create a brighter future for every child, ensuring they thrive academically, socially, and emotionally.
Award giving ceremony
The Director Steve Onyang with some of the children during school awards ceremony for champions in different categories.
Digital Literacy
Some of our secondary school students in our computer laboratory learning computer science.
Science
Some of our secondary school students during a physics science practical lesson. The study that encourages scientific reasoning, discoveries and inventions.
Mathematics
Some of our young children children doing arithmetic on the blackboard. Practice makes perfect.
School Choir Team
Teacher Beryl Ochieng with some of our school choir team at the Kenya Music Festival competition.
Fine Arts
Some of our young children drawing on the ground. Practice makes perfect. Giving wings to the artists who’d like to take it up as a career or just a hobby.
Humanities
Some of our Secondary School students and teachers on a study tour of a historical site called Simbi Nyaima in Homa Bay County. The study of ancient and modern languages, philosophy, history, and more.