Equip rural Kenyan girls to GET UP out of poverty

The Girls Empowerment Team of the Umoja Project (GET UP) provides a additional support, education, and encouragement to girls from class 6, 7, and 8 through secondary school and univeristy.  For those in the U.S., GET UP serves middle school on up through college. In addition to mentorship and support, these students also receive sanitary towels which allow them to stay in school each month during their menstrual cycle.

The results of GET UP have been decreased teen pregnacy, increase performance, and increased matriculation to the next level of education for our girls.

Sharon is one of these bright young, beautiful, slight shy females. Sharon is a paternal orphan and a graduate of Lisuka Primary School and Obambo Secondary School. She joined the Umoja Project in class 5 and has received uniforms, a blanket, school lunches, sanitary towels, GET UP programs, secondary school tuition, and now college tuition. She worked with the project between high school and college as a project assistant. (photo below)

She is currently in a diploma program in civil engineering at P.C. Kinyanjui Technical Training Institute. After her first term she was the 2nd best student out of a class of 126 males and females. She was the best overal female student in her department.

Sharon writes. I am very glad and appreciative for this opportunity to narrate my story. I became the first child out of seven to go to high school. I really appreciate the Umoja Project and I wish it could continue helping the needy like us. May God bless those people in USA who provide the funds that help us here in Kenya. I am glad for the opportunity and I hope by God's grace I'll be able to change my life as well as my family's. 

May God bless you people abundantly.

The Umoja family is so proud of you Sharon, we eagerly await your next accomplishment!

Make sure you click the link to what her video recorded at the GET UP Sr retreat!

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