CHILDREN SPONSORED TO SECONDARY SCHOOL
AN ON GOING PROJECT
(Last update January 2012)
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 2006, and to date we have enabled 17 children to continue their education, four 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 2012 !
This page will be updated
immediately that payments have been made for 2012
Last update 13 Jan
2012
| Entry | Finish | Current year (2012) |
Sponsor Payment 2012 |
Fee Needed 2012 |
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| Jan 2008 | Nov 2011 | Completed | - | - | Victor Odhiambo |
| Jan 2008 | Nov 2011 | Completed | - | - | Rosebell Atieno |
| Jan 2008 | Nov 2012 | 4 | paid for 2012 | - | Gilbert Ouya |
| Jan 2008 | Nov 2012 | 4 | paid for 2012 | - | Edwin Ochieng |
| Jan 2008 | Nov 2012 | 4 | paid for 2012 | - | Erastus Osinde |
| Jan 2009 | Nov 2012 | 4 | paid for 2012 | - | Dorcas Kwok |
| Jan 2010 | Nov 2013 | 3 | paid for 4 years | - | Ezekiel Omondi Agwanda |
| Jan 2010 | Nov 2013 | 3 | paid for 2012 | - | Everline Adhiambo |
| Jan 2010 | Nov 2013 | 3 | paid for 2012 | - | Paul Ojowi |
| Jan 2010 | Nov 2013 | 3 | paid for 2012 | - | Aggrey Rabala Ochieng |
| Jan 2010 | Nov 2013 | 3 | paid for 2012 | - | Daniel Oduor |
| Jan 2010 | Nov 2013 | 3 | paid for 4 years | - | Alex Owino |
| Jan 2011 | Nov 2014 | 2 | paid for 4 years | - | Juliet Akoth |
| Jan 2011 | Nov 2014 | 2 | paid for 2012 | - | Muga Kelvicks Ondiek |
| Jan 2012 | Nov 2015 | 1 | . | £200 | More children await sponsorship for year 1 There is still time for them to start. |
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?
| Sponsor a boy or girl for year 1 of secondary school £200.00 through Paypal using your credit or debit card. |
| Sponsor a boy or girl for year 2 or year 3 of secondary school £100 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 your child. |
| Sponsorship for year 4 of secondary school (includes final exam fees) £150 through Paypal using your credit or debit card |
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.
2012 COSTS OF SPONSORING A CHILD TO SECONDARY SCHOOL
| Year 1 | £200.00 | Includes clothing, books, etc. |
| Year 2 | £100.00 | |
| Year 3 | £100.00 | |
| Year 4 | £150.00 | Includes national exam fees |
| TOTAL | £550.00 |
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.
January 2011 News: Our new Alara School came top in the exam league tables for the district!
If we could find sponsors, many more deserving orphans could attend the secondary school starting in 2012. (Term begins on January 1st, but they can be added at any time in the next couple of months). Can you help?
Class 8 at Alara Primary School on their last day of school after the
exams.
(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 (Final year 2012)
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 Victor (sponsored January 2008) Now completed |
 Gilbert (Final year 2012) |
 Rosebell (sponsored January 2008) Now completed |
 Erastus (Final Year 2012) |
 Edwin (Final Year 2012) |
Everline Okello Adhiambo She has no parents, and is a really deserving girl to go to secondary school, where she is succeeding well. |
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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. |
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. |
Muga Kelvicks 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 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. Muga is one of her two sons, 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 announced that he would like her to be his mother, and she agreed to take him home. The boy started 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. 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 found a sponsor, but who can only afford to pay for year 1, so he will now start secondary school in February 2011. We have also paid for his new school uniform, shoes, books and equipment, etc. Somehow we shall find the money to pay for his other three years in the secondary school. (Year 2 has now been paid). We had news in January 2011 that Janet's meagre mud hut home was destroyed. The roof fell in on the family when they were sleeping. They now sleep in the back of a store in Kisumu Market, thanks to one of the local traders. Life just isn't fair for Janet and her family. |
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Other Children currently sponsored
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