By Denise Soltis | Executive Director
Meet Sharon!
Sharon has been a recipient of the Umoja Project since class 5 primary school. She has received school lunch, uniforms, a blanket, a lamp to study, secondary tuition, a job as a project assistant, and now tuition for her Survey program at Ramogi Institute of Advanced Technology in Kisumu. Sharon lost her father in class 3 and as her mother struggle to care for the family, her Aunt was able to take her in so that she attend an Umoja Project school. Sharon says, if not for Umoja Project she would have ended up on the streets.
During my January 2019 visit to the project, I had the opportunity to sit with Sharon and evaluate her progreess in her program. She shared her gratitude for the project and her desire to give back to the community that has given her so much hope. She credits Umoja Project for "molding her into an important person." This December she joined with other Umoja Project Alumni to donate money to provide secondary scholarships for up to two students. She is proud that she is giving back to an organization that has given her so much.
When I asked her what she would like to share with younger students her face lit up when she talked about the GET Up program. Clearly it has made an important impact on her. She hopes to become a GET UP Mentor so she can share the lessons she learned in the program "to focus on the future". Watch the video of Sharon.
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