By Leo Mpoke | Project Leader
Thank you for helping us support future leaders!
This is an opportune time to share with you how your contributions are changing lives positively in the villages where we work. Today I share with you the life of young girl from Lake Baringo who is working hard to prepare herself for a better life in the future. Her name is Viola and she is a third year student at Kimng’orom Girls High School.
Viola was brought up by her single parent mother who has 4 other children. They live in a harsh, dry region with a high level of poverty where the water has high fluoride content and that is the reason why Viola and many other children from her community have brown discoloured teeth. The main economic activity is livestock keeping, especially goats.
One of the ways we support the community around Lake Baringo is to look out for talent among the youth and support them to nurture leadership skills. Although Viola comes from a poor community which discriminates against girls, she is a confident, ambitious, courageous and an outgoing person. She has all the qualities of a future leader.
Viola was elected student leader for the entire school by her high school peers last year when she was in form 2, so she is respected even by her older peers in form 3 and 4. In order to help Viola and other children grow their livelihood and leadership skills, we make regular visits to their schools and their home communities to speak to teachers, parents, the children themselves and their community leaders. During these visits we ensure that we get time for counselling and mentorship sessions with the students where we reach out to students who have special needs and appreciate and encourage those who are excelling in their school work.
Thank you for your partnership and please share our work with your friends so that we can identify more children like Viola. Let them know that a good time to give to our project is September 16th 2015 where GlobalGiving will give a 30% bonus to any contribution made that day.
Thanking you and wishing you blessings.
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