Education Kenya Project #44599

Help 100 Girls Complete Primary School

by Sheepcare Community Centre

Project Report | Jan 22, 2025
ILLUMINATING A GIRL'S FUTURE THROUGH EDUCATION

By Joshua Omondi | Project Leader

Final moments for the 2023 class

The "Help 100 Girls Complete Primary School" project aims to address educational barriers faced by vulnerable girls in our community. By providing financial assistance, educational materials, mentorship, and a supportive learning environment, this initiative seeks to empower vulnerable girls to complete their primary education successfully. This report highlights the progress, achievements, challenges, and future plans of the project.

Progress and Achievements

Enrollment and Retention:
- To date, 2658 girls have been enrolled in primary schools under the project.
- Retention rates have improved significantly, with 86% of beneficiaries continuing their education without interruption.
Provision of Educational Resources:
- Distributed 1560 sets of school uniforms, shoes, and bags.
- Provided textbooks, stationery, and other learning materials to all beneficiaries.
Mentorship and Counseling:
- Conducted 15 mentorship sessions focused on building self-esteem, study skills, and career aspirations.
- Partnered with OCC-Lower Savannah to offer counseling services to address psychosocial challenges.
Community Engagement:
- Organized 4 community awareness events to highlight the importance of girls’ education.
- Garnered support from parents, guardians, and local leaders to ensure sustained commitment to girls’ education.
Health and Nutrition Support:
- Provided hygiene kits and menstrual health education to beneficiaries.
- Collaborated with local health centers to ensure access to healthcare services for the girls.

Challenges Faced

Financial Constraints:
- Rising costs of educational materials and other essentials have stretched the project’s budget.
Cultural Barriers:
- Persistent cultural attitudes toward early marriage and the undervaluing of girls’ education require continuous sensitization efforts.
Economic Pressures:
- Some families prioritize immediate economic needs over long-term educational goals, risking the withdrawal of beneficiaries from school.

Impact Stories

[Grace Atieno]:
- The parents separated and they were left under the care of their mum who has no job at the moment whi in class 7. Since the mother could not afford to take care of the two children, they were forced to drop out of school and stayed at home for one year. Durig this period they went without food for days and many a times their house would be shut due to failure to pay their rent, and well wishers could come up occassionally to help them out. We got to know about the girl through one of our teachers who lives in the same area in 2022, we paid a visit ro the family and admitted the girl to our class 7, gave her 3 sets of uniform and stationaries and sanitary towels. She did her class 8 national examination and was among the best girls. We admitted her to our secondary school last year , her perfomance has been good all through
Ruth Khavere
- Ruth Khavere, currently pursuing nursing at a local college, is one of our beneficiaries from the class of 2023. While her life can be ranked among those on the brighter side, this could not be seen back in 2017 when we found her. She was timid, hopeless and engrossed in poverty. She got adopted into the Help a hundred girls complete primary school program, through which her fees was paid, got mentorship, provided for with the basic necessities and the motivation of being among others like her saw her completing her primary education. Through the same program she was enrolled to highschool after performing exemplary well in her Kenya Certificate of Seconday Education. She consistently did well throughout her highschool education through which she was able to acquire a full scholarship to the nursing college in 2024. Her story has really inspired other girls in the program and they all aspire to be like her.
- They are so many girls who have gone through the program and about 90% have come back with testimonials that give others hope. The above stories are just part of the many success stories and that is what we love to see as an organization as it gives us a reason to keep sourcing for more ways to help such girls.

Future Plans

Expand Outreach:
- Increase the number of beneficiaries from 100 to 4500 by 2027
Strengthen Partnerships:
- Collaborate with more local organizations, schools, and government agencies to enhance program sustainability.
Enhance Monitoring and Evaluation:
- Implement a robust system to track the academic performance and well-being of beneficiaries.
Address Economic Barriers:
- Introduce livelihood programs for parents and guardians to reduce economic pressures.

Acknowledgments

We express our deepest gratitude to GlobalGiving:which has been a great platform to raise money to support this course, donors, and all partners for their invaluable contributions. Together, we are shaping a brighter future for vulnerable girls in our community. We appeal to you to help us reach those within your network to come on board to support us in this initiative

Much blessings

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Sep 23, 2024
Empower a Girl Today Brighten Her Future

By Joshua Omondi | Project Leader

The journey toward education for the girl child is fraught with numerous challenges. In many communities, girls are often perceived as less important than boys due to cultural beliefs, which can hinder their access to education. Furthermore, the biological changes girls experience, such as menstruation, can severely impact their self-esteem, especially when they are not adequately supported. A significant number of girls drop out of school due to the lack of basic sanitary products like menstrual pads, which many families cannot afford because of poverty.

Recognizing this critical issue, Sheepcare Community Centre has been dedicated to empowering girls in Soweto Slums, Nairobi, Kenya. For years, our organization has worked tirelessly to ensure that girls can compete on an equal footing with their male counterparts. We address this issue by:

1.Providing Sanitary Towels: We ensure that girls have access to sanitary pads, which allows them to attend school without shame or fear during their menstrual periods.

2.Subsidizing School Fees: We support families by reducing school fees, enabling more girls to stay in school.

3.Organizing Training Sessions: These sessions are designed to educate girls about managing their biological changes, personal hygiene, and how to protect themselves from exploitation by irresponsible men in society. We also emphasize the dangers of early marriages, which can lead to school dropouts.

These efforts have yielded remarkable results. Many of the girls we have supported have not only stayed in school but have excelled academically, often outperforming their male counterparts. They are now better equipped to pursue their dreams, confident in their abilities and their worth.

We deeply appreciate your continued support through the GlobalGiving platform. Your generosity has made a significant impact. During the April 2024 Little by Little Campaign, you, along with other compassionate individuals, helped us raise $8,490, which has gone a long way in supporting this initiative. As a result of your contributions:

1.180 girls have received a Dignity Package every month.

2.We have organized additional training sessions to empower girls in both primary and secondary schools.

3.We have further subsidized school fees for 54 girls, ensuring they remain in school and continue their education.

To ensure the sustainability of this initiative, we kindly ask you to help us reach out to others within your network who might be willing to join us in this cause. Your regular monthly support, not just during GlobalGiving campaigns, would be invaluable in helping us continue this life-changing work. We remain steadfast in our commitment to transforming our community by empowering the girl child and ensuring they have the tools to thrive.

Thank you for being part of this mission and for bringing dignity and hope to so many young girls.

Sheepcare Community Centre

Empowering the Girl Child, Transforming Communities.

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May 28, 2024
Empower a Girl for a Better Future

By Joshua Omondi | Project Leader

In the journey to acquiring education, the girlchild is faced with a lot of challenges ranging from negative community beliefs that portray them as less superior to boys, to the biological changes within their bodies that if not well supported may reduce their self esteem. Many girls could drop out of school due to the shame of experiencing their menstrual periods without sanitary pads due to poverty rates in the family hence the parents could not afford to provide them with such.

Having identified this problem in Soweto Slums-Nairobi;Kenya, Sheepcare Community Centre for years has been committed to ensuring that the girlchild is empowered to be able to compete favourably with their male counterparts. This ,we have done through provision of sanitary towels, subsidizing the school fee, organizing training sessions to train the girls how to cope up with their body changes and take care of themselves in terms of hygiene and against being taken advantage of by irresponsible men in the society or getting into early marriages that may make them to drop out of school. This call we have seen bear fruits as many girls have been able to pursue their dreams and many at times perform even better than the boys.

We appreciate your continued support through the GlobalGiving platform, you have brought dignity to and empowered a girlchild. Through the September 2023 Little by Little Campain, You together with other like minded individuals enabled us to raise $10490 that we dedicated towards this project, a sum of 163 gilrs have been able to receive Dignity Package every month, part of it was used to organize training sessions to empower the girls both in our Primary and Secondary school, we have also managed to subsidize further the school fee for 43 girls.

In order to ensure sustainability of this, we appeal to you to help us reach those within your network to join and help us continue with this course. We would continue to appeal for your regular monthly support not only when the GlobalGiving campaign is on going.

We remain comitted to seeing greater transformation of the community.

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