Transform the Lives of Up to 600 Orphaned Girls

Thanks to  you 60 lives will be transformed.

Though our project did not win a place in Girl Fund, your donations amounting to  US$487.00 to date. will benefit 60 girls at the Women Without Borders orphanage.  These girls live in the slums of Bongoma, north-west of Nairobi, where life is tough. (See picture of Kenyan slums below).

Of every 100 girl children, 40% do not complete primary level of education due to early pregnancy, while 10%drop out of school due early marriages while 5% are denied education through retrogressive traditional/cultural norms

Furthermore, those girls who are at school are often absent because they lack sanitary products, which are financially  inaccessible for most poor families. Girls miss 5 or more days of school each month, because the rags, bark, or soil they use do not protect them well enough to go out in public. With little knowledge of hygeine and perhaps little or no access to clean water, they are prone to serious infections.

The result is that girls miss between It is so easy to get behind when they are consistently missing school for 8-12 weeks of the 48 week school year. That is 16.7% of the school year.

Your donations will transform the live of 60 girls by providing them with all their sanitary needs for a year. The program will educate the girls about hygeine and they will no longer be the subject of mockery in or out of school as they are protected.

(The costing for sanitary pads, $40.00 per girl per year, is part of our project costings).

Thanks to you, 60 girls will stay in achool, be better educated, healthier and more confident. and the ripple effect of that will have a huge impact.  

We look forward to telling you more about our girls and how they are progressing in school.

Links:

• 30% of girls leaving school for lack of sanitary pads - See more
• The Girl Effect's report on the global context.
• Slum location where our girls live