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Kenya Self-Help Project Empowerment Programs
'Education for Sustainable Change'
Girls' Health & Social Empowerment... advancing girls' health maintenance & education
High School Scholarships... inspiring high-achieving youth Girls' Health & Social Empowerment Initiative
 Kenya Self-Help Girls' Health & Social Empowerment program gives informational and structural support to the region's most vulnerable population: its adolescent girls. Its purpose is to improve girls' health and school attendance by giving them the tools for self-help. Currently, more than 70% of Kendu Bay girls do not finish grade eight.
KSHP works through local schools to address root causes for teenage girls' dropout: pregnancy and early marriage and absence during monthly menstrual periods.
Kenya Self-Help Project partners with local schools where Girls Clubs serve as a vehicle for instruction and sharing. Weekly meetings and activities help build girls' self confidence and decision-making skills and provide health and AIDS prevention education. To reduce absence during monthly periods, girls receive Dignity Kits containing underwear and locally-made reusable sanitary napkins.
To support health maintenance goals, the program builds gender-sensitive latrines for girls at partner schools.
For $25/yr, an adolescent girl receives the full program services of our Girls' Health & Social Empowerment initiative, including instructional and material support. Girls receive Dignity Kits containing 2 innerwear and a year's supply of re-usable sanitary pads. Weekly Girls' Club activities promote health education and life skills training. Learn more and see how to Support a Girl through KSHP's Girls' Health & Social Empowerment initiative. Donate Now. High School Scholarships
Kenya Self-Help Project promotes a High School Scholarship program that is unique in its structure and support services. Our current family of sixty-four sponsored students study at 27 different national, provincial and regional high schools. Students awarded a KSHP scholarship receive a project officer's supervision and mentoring, and full program services to support their social and academic success. Sponsors are encouraged to become active partners.
When our Scholarship program began in 2005, test scores ranked Nyakongo's (Kendu Bay) primary schools 12th out of the 18 districts in the zone. One year later, competition among students for a scholarship propelled the district to 5th place. In 2007, Nyakongo school district ranked 3rd in the zone. The effect of Kenya Self-Help scholarships has caused students in the entire region to aspire to higher standards. Our goal is to support this momentum.
The Scholarship program challenges the region's high-achieving orphaned and disadvantaged youth to lead the way in their community's rebuilding efforts for sustainable change. Learn more and see how you can Sponsor a Student at KSHP's High School Scholarship program. Donate Now.
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