The three Kenyan students are in Sweden together with politicians and officials from Homa Bay. The visit is part of a knowledge exchange and development project, together with Härryda municipality, to increase young people’s awareness of career and life choices. The students’ program differs from that of the rest of the delegation and they have mainly been able to take part in various lessons at Hulebäcksgymnasiet.
– I really like the Swedish school. The students have been very friendly and I like the way the teachers work. That they involve the students in the lessons and that there is a lot of group work. In Kenya, teaching is based more on books, says Timothy Omondi Owuor who is 19 years old and has graduated from high school in Homa Bay.
Timothy, Daniel and Kayla have just joined a law class in the economics program. Today, law had to take a back seat for a quiz where the Swedish students had to place African countries on a map.
Swedish students need to become more motivated
Seventeen-year-old Kayla Rita Bugo is grateful for the opportunity to visit Sweden and the hospitality she experienced from everyone she met. She thinks that the Swedish students need to become more goal-oriented and think more about what they will do after graduation.
– Most of the people I have spoken to here do not know what they want to be after school. They need to have a goal with their education that they aim for. Don’t just go to school because they have to. In Kenya, people think more about the career and what the education should lead to, says Kayla, who herself wants to work as a software developer in the future.
Another difference between school in Kenya and Sweden is that in Kenya you have much longer school days and that you live in a boarding school at school. Nor do they have access to their own computers in teaching, as they have seen that the Swedish students have.
