WHAT WE DO
Our Sponsor-a-Student program provides high school scholarships to high-achieving orphaned and disadvantaged youth in Rachuonyo district of Kendu Bay. Its purpose is to give the region's most capable destitute students access to educational opportunity so they may lead the way in their community's future development.

Sponsors are linked to individual students, who benefit from a comprehensive scholarship/social empowerment program. A sponsorship provides a network of services for school fees, room & board, books & school supplies. Each student receives mentoring, home & school visits, life skills education & leadership training, term break tutoring and medical & personal support integral to helping each sponsored student be socially and academically successful.

THE SITUATION
Secondary schools in Kenya are private and most are boarding schools. For rural families living on less than $2/day a high school education is out of reach for even the brightest child. A sponsorship extends a lifeline to a student in Kendu Bay, where two-thirds of students eligible to join high school lack financial ability to pay the required school fees. Our scholarship program serves this population and its most capable students.

HELP A STUDENT LIKE TITUS
SPONSOR A STUDENT
Titus Omondi is 16 years old and has just begun his final year of high school thanks to a sponsor like you. Titus' father died when he was young; his mother is a peasant farmer. Titus is an affable young man whose smile reflects his blooming self confidence. At Oriwo Boys High School, he ranks 7th in his class of 211 students.  Boys and girls just like Titus will not go to school without our help.  Join us today!

GOAL: $1,500 full sponsor     
           $ 750 co-sponsor

HOW KSHP SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM WORKS
More than 100 students from Rachuonyo district apply for KSHP high school scholarships each year. Only TWELVE students - the most capable and most needy - will receive scholarships and become part of our KSHP family of students. Each recipient is linked to a specific sponsor who will partner with 'their' student throughout the high school years. Sponsors enable a student to study and board at a provincial or national high school to which they have been "called." Personal letters and term grade reports are shared three times/year and periodic updates keep sponsors informed of their student's progress. Sponsors also receive family information and school visit reports. Our sponsors and students establish lifelong bonds.

BY THE NUMBERS

2004   1 sponsored student
2005   3 students
2006   11 students
2007   23 students
2008   42 students
2009   59 students
2010   64 high school and 4 university scholarship students
2011   57 high school and 7 university scholarship students

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