To use highly trained, qualified, motivated and needs driven staff in providing the necessary orientation, skills, and attitudes in a friendly, caring, and resourceful environment for the visually challenged learners to exploit their full potential so as to be able to occupy their rightful place in the modern world.
Established in 1967, the Thika High School for the Blind is the only high school for the blind in East Africa. The school draws students from Kenya and other East African countries. Learners are selected from approximately ten primary schools for the blind as well as several other integrated programmes.
The school is a coeducational boarding school with more than 300 visually impaired and blind students. At the school there are sixteen classrooms, two laboratories, one dining hall and kitchen, one library, one computer room with only seven computers, one typing room with only ten typewriters, four boys dormitories, two girl dormitories, one administration block, a playing field, a deep well, and a number of other amenities.
The curriculum at Thika High School offers a total of seventeen subjects. These subjects include: English, Kiswahili, mathematics, biology, geography, history, Christian religion education, agriculture, home science, French, music, business studies, computer studies, physical education, and Braille, orientation, and mobility. The subjects of Mathematics, biology, geography, agriculture, home science, and physical education are adapted for the blind. For example in geography they would use tactile diagrams in order to feel them.
* Perkins Braillers ($740 each)
* 40 Computers ($800 each)
* Jaws and Zoom software ($1500)
* Brille paper and Braillon paper
* Typewriters
* Water storage tank
* National Federation of the Blind [NFB]
* American Federation of the Blind [AFB]
* Overbrook School for the Blind [OBS]