Welcome to Longonot Township Secondary School! We are known as the "school beneath the volcano", with beautiful Mount Longonot National Park just behind our school.

We have four classrooms and a science lab. Our lunch feeding program and solar-powered laptop computer lab are provided by Kenya Kids Can. You can also directly sponsor students at Longonot through The School Fund!

On this blog you'll find posts from the Longonot Rafiki Club and partners in North America. Enjoy!

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Rafiki Link

Hi all, we are very glad to be back at school this year.
Rafiki Link has been moving on well and we have now already learnt how to send emails and we are hoping to have a lot of flow of information between us and the students in the west, we have already brainstormed on what we want to communicate with students in the west and some of the ideas that we have include:
  1. Academics
  2. games
  3. Hobbies
  4. Culture
  5. Challenges that students face
  6. Environment
  7. Politics
we have already put it into practice and we have sent two emails to Bodwell High school since we are working in two groups because we have two discussion groups. below are the emails that we sent:-
1st email
Hi Bodwell students, below is a topic that we would like to discuss with you about air pollution.
Air pollution has increased drastically in the whole world, it has flourished as bushfire due to improvement on the level of technology, in most cases,developed countries have factors that promote industrial growth hence pollution in such countries is very high.
Air pollution leads to destruction of the the protective ozone layer. it corrodes it therefore exposing mankind to high chances like contracting skin cancer due the gamma rays from the sun.
To reduce air pollution all nations should come together and come up with alternative methods of producing enough power to run in the industries that is environmentally friendly since use of fossil fuels is the main cause of air pollution.

2nd email
How are you Bodwell high school student?we are student from Longonot high school ,we would like to discuss with you about drug abuse.
Drug abuse is the use of drugs in an unintended way or use of drug in large quantities.
Drugs are grouped in to two categories.
HARD DRUGS,this drugs include Mandrax,Heroine and Cocaine.This kind of drugs has resulted to negative effects to the country economy and also to individuals.
such effects include;
a. mental problems
b. health complication
c. financial constraints
MEDICAL DRUGS,THIS are drugs which are given at hospitals by doctors.They are only abused if consumed in large quantities.They include;malariaquine.
Youths should join hands and firmly condemned drugs abuse including themselves getting rid of drugs and participating in public awareness compaigns.


We are also looking forward to have a facebook group where we can post photos and tag them, we will keep you posted on all that is happening.