By Angie Gust | Project Leader
Kenya
February 2015
Dear Friends,
Thank you so much for supporting the PATHWAYS scholars. Today we want to report on the progress of first year scholar Isaac and fourth year scholar Justus have made in their academic lives and with their community projects.
Isaac
I have directed all my mind on my project during the December holiday with an aim of uplifting my community. This entailed preparing the second seedbed in December after a superb harvest of the previous seedlings that amounted to 204 seedlings with a total of Kshs.1020 going Kshs per seedling,with the few remaining. We are planning to sell them in April during the rainy season.
The cash was channeled to our second project that involved cassava and sweet potatoes plantations which do well during dry seasons to enable us to continue making cash. The whole idea came from Michael's project (a PATHWAYS alumnus). Thanks to him.
It was from the members’ idea that we saw it better for each member to contribute at least Kshs.200 so that we can lease a farm within the community where we are carrying out our project. All these are taken care of by our patron when most of us are in schools.
It is from the profits ploughed back that we are intending to support the school drop outs with necessary but lacked items like uniforms, pens and books that can enable them be in school again. We went ahead identifying such kids from our locality like orphans and vulnerable children from the same orphanage I was once brought up from.
Thank you for supporting my efforts to give back to my community,
Isaac
Justus
As most students have already begun their holidays, we have not failed to bring them together in the form of our usual youth meetings. We convened a meeting and about 23 members were in attendance. They were all fine and give good academic reports from their various schools as this concerns their promotion to the next class. We plan to start off the many activities for the holiday.
In this holiday also,our youth group involves parents with students in secondary school, colleges and universities in a fund raising activity which is aimed at benefitting the students in form of local bursaries. This helps to keep these students in school to complete their education.
The irrigation project is doing quite well as we now have plenty of rain here. The women are now relieved from carrying water for the crops as it rains mostly at night nourishing the garden.
Thank you for your continued support. I am grateful for your assistance in this effort to educate youth, especially girls.
Justus
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