Five scholarship recipients outside of Kameji Secondary School
Secondary school is not free or universal in Kenya, so many children in Lwala struggle to proceed past 8th grade. Each year, the Lwala Community Alliance grants scholarships to 10 talented students who lack the means to go to secondary school. The Lwala Village Development Committee, the group of local leaders that governs our work in Kenya, selects these students, and friends in the U.S. sponsor each child for about $500 a year.
Elementary schools around Lwala are full of future clinicians, businessmen, clergy, civil servants, and leaders in the community, but their potential is often cut short by the opportunity cost to families to keep children, particularly girls, in school. With support, many more of these children will have the chance to realize their educational and vocational calling.
