Premier Credit supports a school proprietor to acquire skills for running her business
For more than three decades, Nelly Angela Olang has worked in the education sector as a teacher and trainer. Today, as director of Lorem School in Langata, she brings that experience into running an institution where education and business management have to work hand in hand.
Her journey with Premier Credit began around 2016, after she was introduced to the lender by a friend. At the time, one of the challenges she was confronting was inadequate capital, having started the school with limited resources.But while access to finance helped address part of the challenge, Nelly found another important opportunity through Premier Credit’s training programme at Strathmore.“I must say I’m very thankful for Premier Credit for picking me to be among the participants in the course that they started at Strathmore,” she says.
Golden opportunity
The programme gave her an opportunity to examine the business side of running a school more closely. For Nelly, one of its greatest benefits was discovering that some of the difficulties her school had experienced were linked not only to capital, but also to how certain aspects of the business were being managed.“We’ve discovered quite a number of things that we have been doing wrong, hence leading us into a lot of difficulties,” she says.
That realisation made the training particularly valuable. Rather than simply adding to her knowledge as an educator, the programme challenged her to look at the school through the lens of management, decision-making and sustainability.
Nelly also credits the quality of the learning environment. She describes the classes as enjoyable, well-coordinated and professionally organised, while the participants brought a level of maturity and openness that enriched the experience. “Our classes were great. I really enjoyed our classes. I enjoyed the lecturer,” she says.
For a school director who remains deeply involved in education, the experience reinforced the importance of continuing to learn, not only about teaching, but also about the business structures that support an institution’s growth.
Nelly’s story is therefore one of learning beyond the classroom: bringing decades of educational experience together with new business knowledge to strengthen the way she leads her school.
For Premier Credit, her experience demonstrates how financial support can be complemented by practical capacity building, giving school owners an opportunity to strengthen not only their institutions, but also the skills required to manage them.
