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EMANUELA MAZZOLA SCHOOL

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About us

The School was donated in memory of a young Italian university student, Emanuela Mazzola, and inaugurated by His Grace R.S. Ndingi Mwana A Nzeki in 2001.

“Only the person who is curious is open to learn from the reality around. We learn through experience in the presence of an adult. Thus, the first concern of a genuine and appropriate educational method is the education of the heart of a man just as God made it …..Its original relation to all this”.

-{Fr. Giussani, The Risk Of Education}

School Logo

The School’s Logo depicts a mother accompanying a child to our school (recognizable by the shape of the three roofs); this refers to an episode occurred to an Italian priest, fr. Luigi Giussani, who used to go for Mass early in the morning, accompanied by the mother.

One day they both spotted a bright star in the sky (it was just before dawn). The mother suddenly pointed at it while exclaiming: “Look! How beautiful the world is and how great is God!”.

We believe that reality is positive and comes from God, the Creator of the universe. As adults, we accompany the children to discovering this positive meaning, as the mother of fr. Luigi did.

OUR HISTORY

1997
Established

The school was built through donation from a family, Carla and the late Paolo Mazzola, who lost their daughter, Emanuela Mazzola, through a fatal car accident in Milan, Italy on 30th March 1997.

Emanuela was a twenty one year old architect student at the University of Milan, Italy. On the night of the accident, she and her boyfriend, together with their friends had planned to go and watch a movie in Milan. She rang her father to let him know that she would come late. Her father objected and asked her to postpone the outing to another day. She hung up annoyed, but five minutes later she called again informing the father that she had decided to come home as requested.

On the way home she met her destiny.

2001
The Beginning

To honor Emanuela’s memory and fulfill the desire she had to come to Africa and ‘build bridges’ the parents donated the settlement from her life insurance for the building of this Kindergarten.

The school began in the year 2001 in a temporary structure and it has gradually grown over the years.  In the same year a new structure was built and officially inaugurated and blessed by His Grace R. S. Ndingi Mwana A Nzeki, the then  Archbishop of Nairobi.

2020
New Developments

During the Pandemic, due to the new regulations concerning social distancing and health, the school was split into two sections: the Daycare Compound, which hosts three classes, a multipurpose hall, kitchen, toileting facilities and playing field and the Preprimary Compound, that boasts six classes, ablution block, playing field, playground, shamba and kitchen.

All the facilities are universally accessible in order to cater for special needs children.

2022
Currently

All teachers are TSC registered. The number of children stands at 180 with each class having a manageable size of 20 to 25 children.

OUR PROFESSIONAL TEAM

The School follows the regulations of the Kenyan Law and those of the Catholic Church of Nairobi. It has a Board of Management, a School Director (Catholic Priest), a Headteacher and the Deputy Head.

Peris

Headmistress

Annette

Deputy Headmistress

Elizabeth

Teacher

Eunice

Teacher

Gertrude

Teacher

Monicah

Teacher

Hannah

Teacher

Norah

Teacher

Margaret

Teacher

Patrick

Teacher

Pauline

Teacher

Shelomith

Teacher

Lucy

Teacher

Christine

Secretary

Esther

Finance

Solomon

Caretaker

Pamela

Chef

Lucy

Chef

Patrick

Groundsman

Pauline

Janitor

Hannah

Janitor

David

Driver

Ken

Driver

Staff

Peris

Headmistress

Annette

Deputy Headmistress

Elizabeth

Teacher

Eunice

Teacher

Gertrude

Teacher

Monicah

Teacher

Hannah

Teacher

Norah

Teacher

Margaret

Teacher

Patrick

Teacher

Pauline

Teacher

Shelomith

Teacher

Lucy

Teacher

Support Staff

Christine

Secretary

Esther

Finance

Solomon

Caretaker

Pamela

Chef

Lucy

Chef

Patrick

Groundsman

Pauline

Janitor

Hannah

Janitor

David

Driver

Ken

Driver

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