CHILDREN SPONSORED TO SECONDARY SCHOOL
AN ON GOING PROJECT
Children currently at the secondary school (2009)
This is the group of orphan children who are currently at the secondary school with our support (2009). Five of them started in January 2008, and a sixth in January 2009. (Seven more have been sponsored to start in January 2010)
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!
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. (On our visit in August 2009 for a week, they came to see us every day!)
NEW CHILDREN TO BE SPONSORED STARTING 2010
Seven new children have been sponsored to go to the secondary school starting in January 2010
Ezekiel - August 2009
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's performance at school is 1st in the class. A bright boy. Somehow, we are going to make sure that in January 2010 he goes to the secondary school, is given clothes, shoes and school uniform, and food at school.
Can you help others like him?
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. There are lots of children like Ezekiel, and we cant help them all. I wish we could! We help those who are orphans, 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?
Everline Okello Adhiambo
Everline has regularly been in the top four in the class. She has no parents, and is a really deserving girl to go to secondary school.
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.
Alex is expected to get very high marks and will qualify easily to enter the secondary school.
Paul Ojowi
Paul is 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.
Aggrey Rabala Ochieng
Daniel Omondi Oduor
Linet Consolate Awino
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.
Maureen and Victor unfortunately did not gain a high enough grade for entry to the secondary school this year (2010). Sponsorships have therefore been given to others on the reserve list.
If we could find sponsors, many more deserving orphans could attend the secondary school starting in 2010. (Term begins on February 1st, but they can be added at any time in the next couple of months). Can you help?
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Class 8 at Alara Primary School on their last day of school after the
exams.
(November 2009)
CHILDREN ALREADY IN SECONDARY SCHOOL WITH SPONSORSHIPS
It is really gratifying to see these children happy, healthy and well fed, and doing well in the secondary school.
Above, Dorcas (sponsored January 2009)
Text books, dictionaries and school bags given to the students.
 Victor (sponsored January 2008) |
 Gilbert (sponsored January 2008) |
 Rosebell (sponsored January 2008) |
 Erastus (sponsored January 2008) |
 Edwin (sponsored January 2008) |
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.
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. We need the first payments by the end of December 2009.
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 for year 1 of secondary school £186.00 (approx US$300) through Paypal using your credit or debit card. |
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| Sponsor a girl for year 1 of secondary school £222.00 (approx US$355) through Paypal using your credit or debit card. |
If you would prefer to pay by cheque then please write to us:
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.
COSTS OF SPONSORING A CHILD TO SECONDARY SCHOOL
| . | Boys | Girls |
| Year 1 | Ksh 10,400 plus 13,700 extras Total Ksh 24,100 (£186 or US$300) |
Ksh 11,900 plus 13,700 extras Total Ksh 25,600 (£222 or US$355) |
| Year 2 | Ksh 10,400 (£90 or US$144) |
Ksh 11,900 (£103 or US$164) |
| Year 3 | Ksh 10,400 (£90 or US$144) |
Ksh 11,900 (£103 or US$164) |
| Year 4 | Ksh 10,400 plus 5,000 exam fees Total Ksh 15,400 (£134 or US$214) |
Ksh 11,900 plus 5,000 exam fees Total Ksh 16,900 (£147 or US$235) |
| TOTAL | Ksh 60,300 (£524 or US$838) |
Ksh 66,300 (£577 or US$923) |
School fees are due at the start of each year in January.
Conversions to £ and $ above are current at the time of writing and
are rounded)
Fees include lunch at School.
Fees for girls are higher due to materials for domestic science.
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
In addition, a scientific calculator is required at the start of year 2.
Sponsors may wish to budget for a new pair of leather shoes at the end of year 2, and some new clothes.
