Education Kenya Project #53304

Educate and Feed 22 Orphans in Kilifi, Kenya.

by Upendo Children Kilifi Community Based Organization

Educate and Feed 22 Orphans in Kilifi, Kenya.

Project Report | May 10, 2022
Education Is The Best Equaliser.

By Lemic Ngalla | Project Director

Purity, one of our beneficiaries

Greetings to our supporters,

Our sincere gratitude to our supporters for the continued support to Upendo children and activities. Children are our most valuable resource and meeting their needs ensures that we have a better generation and future. We continue to support children by advancing access to quality education, feeding, healthcare, vocational skills training and psychosocial support.

Education and feeding are our core programmes where children are supported through school and also provided with 3 meals a day at the organization and at school. We do this by believing that education is the greatest equalizer of conditions of men. Upendo’s education programme supports orphaned and vulnerable children through school across all levels of education (primary, secondary and tertiary). By paying their school fees and meeting their other learning materials, we are ensuring that all our beneficiaries stay in school and get quality education to help them become independent and responsible citizens who will be able to take care of their own families as well as support other needy children in their own community.

With your support and contributions, we have been able to continue supporting 22 children through secondary school by paying their school fees and feeding them. About half of these will be sitting for their Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education in November this year and despite their poor backgrounds, they have been excelling in their academics and we are optimistic that all of them will pass their examinations and join universities and colleges to pursue their passions.

Meet Pius and Purity Charo - our beneficiaries who are siblings and total orphans. They were admitted into Nursery School at the project and have been supported by Upendo since then.They are currently in their fourth form awaiting their national examinations late this year. Pius is at Ribe Boys Secondary School (a national school in Kaloleni) while Purity is at Ribe Girls Secondary School (an extra county school in Kaloleni). They have been able to attend primary and secondary school through the support of Upendo and are both doing very well and promising to join university. Pius is passionate about computers while Purity wants to be a nurse.

Besides excelling academically, the two are also qualified tailors who were trained at Upendo and passed their grade III national tailoring examination. They make uniforms for themselves and other Upendo children over school holidays.

Thank you and best regards,

Purity and Pius making uniforms for our children

Pius and other students with the tailoring trainer

One of our secondary school students (1)

One of our secondary school students (2)

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Jan 10, 2022
Educate and Feed 22 Orphans in Kilifi, Kenya.

By Lemic Ngalla | Project Director

Dear Friends of Upendo,
Thank you for all your support in 2021. Whether you made financial or material donations, visited or volunteered with us or simply liked our Facebook posts, you've made a real difference to our work.

Last year, we participated in the GlobalGiving accelerator fundraiser and our project goal was US$ 15,900 and we managed to raise US$ 12,428. Together, we did an incredible job! Our sincere gratitude to all our sponsors, supporters and friends for their overwhelming support to Upendo children and activities last year. It is an honor for you to be part of the Upendo family: touching the lives of these wonderful children and their families in different ways.

Late last year, Upendo received Kshs. 1,176,961.85 from GlobalGiving towards educating and feeding 22 orphans and vulnerable children at Upendo. This grant will help us pay fees, learning materials and buy food for 22 children at the project across the year! Upendo has already paid school fees and learning materials for 22 students in 19 different schools across the country.

With students doing four terms this year instead of the normal three terms due to disruption of the 2020/2021 academic calendar by Covid-19, the education costs will be higher than the previous years.

Upendo has so far spent Kshs. 187, 805 on school fees, learning materials and meals. We work with different schools across the country where our students attend and school fees and other educational costs are paid directly to the schools’ bank accounts and the schools acknowledge payment through receipts.

Through your support, we continue to provide holistic support to orphans and vulnerable children in Kilifi through advancing access to quality education, feeding, healthcare, psychosocial support and vocational skills training.

The education and feeding programmes are among our key programmes. Upendo meets all the education costs of the children at all levels. This includes: payment of school fees, uniform, stationery and other educational expenses.

Upendo also runs a literacy/reading programme which involves book clubs aimed at inculcating a reading culture. The children are also provided with a balanced diet, three meals in a day at the center across the year.

Thank you so very much for supporting Upendo. Lots of love.

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