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St. Aloysius is a college preparatory secondary school that's designed to prepare our students, whose lives have been dramatically affected by HIV/AIDS, for tertiary education. Today, we have 240 students. Our first class of 20 students  graduated in November, 2006, and our second class of 33 students graduated in November, 2007. In early 2008, we plan to begin construction of permanent buildings, which will provide space for 420 students. In addition to the tuition-free education we offer (which includes school fees, uniforms, textbooks, breakfast, lunch, and school trips), we also provide ongoing support for our graduates for tertiary education.

St. Aloysius was founded by the Christian Life Community (CLC) Kenya and Hands of Love Society (HOLS). More about our founding can be found on the our history page. The school enjoys a close relationship with the Chicago Province of the Society of Jesus. Fr. Terry Charlton, SJ, originally a Chicago Province Jesuit, has been the National Chaplain of Christian Life Community Kenya since 1990. The educational philosophy at St. Al's is based on Ignatian Pedagogy, the educational tradition of the Jesuits.

Our school is named for St. Aloysius Gonzaga, SJ, who in 1591 left the relatively safe Roman College, where he was studying to become a priest, to care for victims of the plague in the streets of Rome. In this service he succumbed to exhaustion and died at age 23. The Catholic Church has honored him as the Patron Saint of youth, and recently he has been chosen as the Patron Saint of people afflicted with the modern day plague, HIV/AIDS and those who care for them. Each of us, no matter where we are from, is affected by this disease.