CHILDREN SPONSORED TO SECONDARY SCHOOL
AN ON GOING PROJECT
(Last update February 2013)
By 2009 we were sponsoring six
children.
Text books,
dictionaries and school bags given to the students
Children currently at the secondary school
We began sponsoring some orphan children to go to the local secondary school in January 2003, and to date we have enabled 19 children to continue their education, many of which have now completed their four years secondary education.
They are all bright children, but when we first met them their future was hopeless. They were poorly clothed and under-fed. Now they are bright happy young people with so much to look forwards to in life!
These young people are so grateful for the opportunity that they have been given. When they hear that we are visiting Kenya they don't just wait for us to visit the school, but they all come and seek us out.
Children currently sponsored:
We MUST
find money to keep these children in school for 2013 !
This page will be updated
immediately that payments have been made for 2013
Last update 13 Feb
2013
| Entry | Finish | Current year (2013) |
Sponsor Payment 2013 |
Fee Needed 2013 |
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| Jan 2008 | Nov 2011 | Completed | - | - | Victor Odhiambo |
| Jan 2008 | Nov 2011 | Completed | - | - | Rosebell Atieno |
| Jan 2008 | Nov 2012 | Completed | - | - | Gilbert Ouya |
| Jan 2008 | Nov 2012 | Completed | - | - | Edwin Ochieng |
| Jan 2008 | Nov 2012 | Completed | - | - | Erastus Osinde |
| Jan 2009 | Nov 2012 | Completed | - | - | Dorcas Kwok |
| Jan 2010 | Nov 2013 | Transferred | - | - | Aggrey Rabala Ochieng |
| Jan 2010 | Nov 2013 | 4 | paid | - | Ezekiel Omondi Agwanda |
| Jan 2010 | Nov 2013 | 4 | paid | - | Everline Adhiambo |
| Jan 2010 | Nov 2013 | 4 | paid | - | Paul Omolo (Ojowi) |
| Jan 2010 | Nov 2013 | 4 | paid | - | Daniel Oduor |
| Jan 2010 | Nov 2013 | 3 repeating | paid | - | Alex Omundi (Owino) |
| Jan 2011 | Nov 2014 | 3 | paid for 4 years | - | Juliet Akoth |
| Jan 2011 | Nov 2014 | 3 | paid | - | Muga Kelvicks Ondiek |
| Jan 2012 | Nov 2015 | 2 | (C&PC) | £112 | Esther Akinyi Yaya |
It is quite a commitment. to sponsor a boy or a girl for four years at the secondary school. But it makes a huge difference to the future of these young people. A secondary school education is the passport to employment. Without it, only about 5% of children get a job.
There are lots of children like those pictured on this page, but we cant help them all. I wish we could! Can you help?
We help those who are total orphans, or who have lost at least a father, and of course, who have passed their final examinations with good marks.
Please contact us by email: info@helpkenyakids.org if you would like to help them. If you can't do it alone, how about enlisting the help of a group of your family or people at work?
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Sponsor a boy or girl for all 4 years of secondary school £579 through Paypal using your credit or debit card. There are MANY children who could attend secondary school this year (2013) if they had a sponsor. Note: as from this year we are asking for full payment for all 4 years for new students. |
| Sponsor a boy for year 2 OR year
3 of secondary school £105 through Paypal using your credit or debit card | |
| Sponsor a GIRL for year 2 OR year
3 of secondary school £112 through Paypal using your credit or debit card | |
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| Sponsorship for year 4 of secondary school (includes final exam fees) £155 through Paypal using your credit or debit card |
| Additional donation (optional) to be used for new clothes, shoes, etc. in year 2, 3 or 4. Enter any amount you wish, to be used for the child you sponsor. |
If you would prefer to pay by cheque then please make the cheque payable (in UK Pounds only) to "R Neep - Kenya Account":
HelpKenyaKids
Rod & Gay Neep
51 St. Whites Road, Cinderford, Gloucestershire GL14 3DF, England
email: info@helpkenyakids.org
We will write to you when payments are due for subsequent years.
2013 COSTS OF SPONSORING A CHILD TO SECONDARY SCHOOL
| Year 1 | £200.00 | Includes clothing, books, etc. |
| Year 2 | Boy £105, Girl £112 | |
| Year 3 | Boy £105, Girl £112 | |
| Year 4 | £155.00 | Includes national exam fees |
School fees are due at the start of each school year in January
Fees include lunch at school (Often the only meal these children get)
Extras in year 1 are the starter "pack" which includes:
- Uniform (leather shoes, 2 pairs trousers, 2 shirts, (dresses for girls), tie, socks, cardigan, games kit, sports shoes)
- School bag
- Mathematics set
- Maths tables
- RSV bible
- English dictionary
- Atlas
- Text books and set reading books
- Paper
Sponsors may wish to budget for a new pair of leather shoes at the end of year 2, and some new clothes. (Donated as a gift)
There are many children who will deserve to go to the secondary school from class 8 in Alara this year. 65% of these children are orphans, and most others just have a surviving mother.
Class 8 at Alara Primary School
on their last day of school after the exams. Several moved on to secondary
school.
(November 2009)
CHILDREN IN SECONDARY SCHOOL
It is really gratifying to see these children happy, healthy and well fed, and doing well in the secondary school.
Above, Dorcas in
2009
And below, Dorcas in her final year 2012 just before she left school.
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 Gilbert in 2012 - Now completed |
 Gilbert (in 2008) |
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 Erastus in his final year 2012 (now completed school) |
 Erastus in 2009 |
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Everline Okello Adhiambo She has no parents, and is a really deserving girl to go to secondary school, where she is succeeding well.
Everline in 2012 (She is now in her 4th and
final year) |
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Paul Ojowi, pictured here with his sponsor Jon Neep. Paul wants to be an engineer, and without help he would have just left school in November 2009 with no future. He has no living parents and lives with his grandmother. He is regularly in the top four in his class, and will be sure to make good grades in his final examinations. |
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Alex Owino Omundi Alex Owino is a vulnerable child . He lives with his aged grandmother and the family has little to no income. His father is dead, and his mother remarried, but as is the culture here, the boy was not adopted by the new husband. |
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EZEKIEL OMONDI
This is a child fairly typical of the kids in Alara Primary School. He is in grade 8 (15 years old) and in his final year at school. Most children just finish school at 15, and few have any prospects for the future. Ezekiel was born to an unmarried mother, and at less than one year old was abandoned because his mother married and her new husband would not take the baby. (This is typical in Kenya). Ezekiel was therefore brought up by his grandmother (grandfather had died of AIDS). Three weeks before our August 2009 visit his grandmother died, and then he went to live with an uncle, a young married man of about 30 years of age. The uncle already has four children of his own, and although he has a labouring job at a local builder's merchant the pay is so poor that he worries about being able to support another. We saw him cry in desperation. The children are all under fed and unhealthy. Ezekiel was bitten by a rabid dog in August. He had a large untreated wound in his leg right through to the bone. His teachers and uncle were worried sick, because they did not have the ability to pay for treatment, either to the wound or for rabies shots. Rod and Gay paid around £80 for his treatment, and he was taken to the hospital in the city of Kisumu. Without the treatment his fate, like so many other children, would have been terminal. A young life was saved. Ezekiel was 1st in the class in primary school. A bright boy. |
Above: Ezekiel in 2012 |
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Kelvics Muga Ondiek This boy lost his father to AIDS. His mother, Janet is in dire need of help. She is also HIV positive and is unwell. A few years ago we helped her by buying three sacks of maize, so that she could sell it by the roadside in Kiboswa Market. She now feeds herself and her family by selling the maize, and regularly buys new sacks herself to continue her little business. A success story in itself. She also supplements her income by doing some cooking at Alara School at lunchtimes. Kelvics Muga is her natural son, and she worries about their future. Despite her dire situation she has adopted a street orphan who hung around her every time she went to market with her maize. Actually, one day, the boy (Michael) announced that he would like her to be his mother, and she agreed to take him home. The boy started primary school at Alara in 2009 and is doing well. Janet is one wonderful lady! On my visits to Kenya, I always make a point of finding her, and offering a little money, which she gratefully accepts with tears, smiles and hugs. Kelicks Muga failed his KCPE exams in Novermber 2009, but attended Alara Primary school again in 2010 to repeat his final year, and this time passed with really good marks. We have also paid for his school fees, new school uniform, shoes, books and equipment, etc. We had news in January 2011 that Janet's meagre mud hut home was destroyed. The roof fell in due to a storm when they were sleeping. They slept in the back of a store in Kisumu Market for a year, thanks to one of the local traders. Life just isn't fair for Janet and her family. BUT Rod & Gay were able to donate money to enable Janet to rebuild her home in 2012. |
Above: Kelvics in 2012
Janet can only be described as a wonderful lady and an inspiration to all. Despite her destitution she adopted more children. It is wonderful to see her situation so much improved from when we first met her in 2005. Below: Janet still sells maize at Kiboswa market on Wednesdays and Saturdays, seen here sitting on the purple chair, and with Alex's grandmother standing on the left.. (Photo November 2012) |
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Esther Akinyi Yaya Esther started at Alara Secondary School in 2012. |
Juliet Akoth Juliet is now in her third year at secondary school, and finishes in November 2014.
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Students at Dago Kokore Secondary Shool (2012)
