Help 20 Kenyan Girls Stay in School!

Greetings EFAC Supporters!

We hope you are healthy and safe as the global pandemic persists and our lives remain upended. It is a pleasure to be sending you this report about our Help 20 Girls Stay in School project. 

As you may know, Kenyan secondary schools closed in March; at that time, all 340 EFAC scholars returned home to their families and have been waiting patiently for the Ministry of Education to relaunch the 2020 school year. Not to be deterred, our scholars have engaged in remote learning, taking advantage of the digital access tools we provided such as smartphones and internet data. EFAC has also hosted weekly virtual webinars over Zoom to keep our kids engaged, supported, and on track. We started a peer tutoring network, linking EFAC college students with high schoolers for academic support. We hired a mental health counselor to provide social-emotional support for students living in challenging circumstances. And we watched with awe as our students dove into service projects and COVID relief initiatives to make a difference in their home communities. 

Yes, COVID has presented extraordinary challenges to the global education sector — our scholars are experiencing an unprecedented disruption in their schooling. But we have responded by pivoting, innovating, and rising to the challenge. We are proud to say, these 20 girls whom you have so generously funded, are healthy, connected and ready to return to school in early 2021.

We hope that by the time we submit our next report, it will begin with two words: They’re Back!  

Thank you again for investing in education with your donation to EFAC. Now is the time for collective action; together we will prevail. 

Stay well,

The EFAC Family