Kiparang’anda Girls’ Hostel

Kiparang’anda Secondary School lies in Mkuranga District, Pwani Region. The second hostel in the programme was built here because the school faced the same conditions Mwarusembe had — long journeys, unsafe roads, and girls arriving too tired to learn.

Following a model rather than starting again

ARF’s partner report is explicit that this project followed the success of the first: the design, the specification and the delivery method were carried across rather than reinvented. That repetition is the point. A model that works once is an anecdote; a model that works four times is a programme.

What was built

The hostel accommodates 80 girls and provides the full specification the programme now works to.

• Beds and mattresses for 80 students
• Modern toilets and bathrooms
• An accessible toilet for students with disabilities
• Laundry areas
• A solar-powered well
• Electricity throughout

Build a Life Foundation funded the construction. Drilling for Hope sponsored the solar-powered well specifically — an attribution ARF’s report makes for this project, and one this site does not extend to other wells without evidence.

A correction on the launch date

An earlier partner report, written before the event, stated that the hostel was “set to be officially launched and handed over on August 10, 2024”. ARF’s later impact report records the launch as having taken place on 17 September 2024.

The later date is used throughout this site, because it describes an event that happened rather than one that was planned. The earlier date is noted here so the difference between the two documents is visible rather than silently resolved.

What the school reported afterwards

The school reported a fall in pregnancy cases from twelve in 2023 to none in 2025, and described a more secure and focused learning environment. Form Four examination distributions for 2024 and 2025 are published below in full.

As with every school in this programme, the distributions are published without a derived improvement figure. The direction of a change is visible in the numbers themselves; a percentage would add precision the underlying data does not support.