First year scholar, Eunita Akim, reports that her youth group earned enough money from the sale of maize that members decided to help needy girls at Hadasah Girls High School in Kisumu Kenya stay in school by providing them with sanitary towels. The visit to the school was a success as the two representatives from the group were also granted an opportunity to hold a guidance and counseling session with the girls.

Eunita’s project involving empowering youth to help themselves and their community has made good progress in its first year. Pictured are some of the girls holding their sanitary towels.

We are happy to announce the graduation of Noah Kanda Kelly.  Noah graduated in September 2011 from the University of Nairobi with a degree in Education. We were only now able to retrieve this lost photo of him and post it.

His first position was teaching Geography at Chebai High School, the same school he attended in high school. Thereafter, he took a position at neighboring school, Moi Girls Kapcherop Secondary School, as a Geography and Business Studies teacher.  Noah is currently especially interested in the education of girls Continue reading →

Dennis Mutwiri, third year scholar, reports that his community project involving introducing solar power is providing benefits. Pictured left is a community member who bought a solar kit on credit and is now using the power for lighting, recharging phones and powering a radios.

Commercially, he charges mobile phones for persons in the neighborhood at the rate of KSH10 per phone and uses some of the proceeds to repay the loan for the solar kit. Continue reading →

We are happy to announce the graduation of our sixth scholar, David Mundia, who  graduated with a degree in Dentistry on December 2, 2011.

David grew up in one of Nairobi’s largest and poorest slums, Korogocho, where medical care was unavailable. These circumstances challenged and motivated him to work hard in school, so that he would be able to make a difference for the poor in Korogocho by one day helping to provide quality, accessible and affordable health care. Continue reading →