Daisy Special School was started by Reverend Perti and Heidi Soderland, a missionary couple from Finland whose passion for children with physical challenges was inspired by their daughter, Daisy, who is physically challenged. The school opened on September 4, 1995 with additional sponsorship from the Full Gospel Churches of Kenya. Daisy School is a mixed day and boarding primary school that caters
to children with and without mental and physical handicaps. The school currently teaches 292 children, and employs 17 teachers, 13 staff members, and a vocational trainer. The school offers a variety of curriculums in order to teach each student to be the best of their abilities. There is a ‘special school’ for students who have multiple handicaps and are unable to keep up with the curriculum of the standard primary school. In these classes students learn the basics of counting, writing, hygiene and life skills. If the child cannot keep up in standard classes, the school offers a vocational program whereby students can learn sewing, farming, and household chores. There is also a physical therapy center that the helps children with physical disabilities function to the best of their abilities. Daisy Special School is also a standard primary school, years 1 to 8, from which children can and do go on to normal secondary schools throughout Kenya.
