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CDA project verification team led by acting MD Dr. Mwanasiti Bendera (centre) poses for a group photo with officials at the newly constructed Burangi Comprehensive School in Magarini Sub County, Kilifi County.
Burangi Comprehensive School Science Teacher demonstrates the use of a microscope in the newly constructed integrated science lab at the school.
Burangi Comprehensive School Science Teacher demonstrates the use of a microscope in the newly constructed integrated science lab at the school.

CDA investment transforms learning, health services in Kilif

News / Tue, 04/28/2026 - 13:38
EMMANUEL MASHA-KNA

Five educational institutions and two health facilities in Kilifi County have benefited from major infrastructure development projects implemented by the Coast Development Authority (CDA) over the past four years.

The Mombasa-based state agency has constructed and furnished 24 new classrooms, three integrated science laboratories, boarding facilities, toilets and other amenities in the five beneficiary schools, according to the Acting Managing Director Dr. Mwanasiti Bendera.

Dr. Bendera, who led a verification tour of the projects, said CDA had also built an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and a High Dependence Unit (HDU) at Malindi Sub-County Hospital, in addition to equipping the hospital’s kitchen and the Mambrui dispensary between 2022 and 2025. 

The projects were undertaken under Phase II of the Malindi Integrated Social and Health Development Programme (MISHDP II) funded through a concessional loan of €6.39 million from the Italian government.

More than half of the loan is currently being used to construct the Mjanaheri–Ngomeni road. Speaking to journalists at Ngomeni Senior School after the tour, Dr. Bendera noted that CDA had relocated Burangi Comprehensive School from a flood-prone site to a safer location, where it constructed eight classrooms, nine toilets, and a fully furnished science laboratory.

At Ngomeni Senior School, the authority built four classrooms, a boys’ dormitory with a capacity of 76 double-decker beds, a kitchen, and a multipurpose hall.