Become a scholarship Supporter

BECOME A SUPPORTER OF OUR SCHOLARSHIP FUND FOR KYAITHANI and LOWER YATTA SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN NDANDINI KENYA
In 2011 we started providing scholarships for the 9 top achievers at the only secondary school in the Ndandini area. In 2023 we have now increased that to 106 at Kyaithani and Lower Yatta Secondary Schools. There are over 400 desperately poor students at Kyaithani and Lower Yatta Secondary Schools striving to get an education so they can better their lives. Can you help us increase the number of scholarships that we provide?
We provide a CAD$110 per year scholarship to the students attending secondary school full time who originally graduated from one of the six primary schools in the Kyaithani area. We are looking for donations in any amount.
Donors to the scholarships will be able to follow our progress on this blogspot as we post information about the children being sponsored, photos and letters.
100% of the donations received go to the students and the Board of Governors accounts to us for the funds. There are no deductions for fundraising or administration.
Like the students and their parents, we know that without an education there is little hope for them to make a better life for themselves.

Unlike in Canada, families in Kenya have to pay school fees in order for their children to attend high school. Many children are forced to drop out because, with family incomes of less than $1/day, their families cannot afford to pay the school costs.

Donations in any amount will receive a tax receipt (for Canadian income tax returns).
For more information about the scholarship program contact me at TerryUmbach@hotmail.com .

Terry Umbach



Thursday, December 18, 2014

Kyaithani Scholars Thank You. Can you help provide more scholarships in 2015?

Here are a few extracts from some of the 26 letters of appreciation that we received from the students at Kyaithani Secondary School in Kenya.  You will be touched by the impact that your donations to the scholarship program are making in the lives of these students.

Thanks for your support.  Please consider supporting the scholarship program again this Christmas season.

Terry and Jan

I appreciate your tireless efforts to ensure my learning. With your support I have been able to axquire my Secondary School education. If possible, I request you to sponsor my education next year in a higher level of learning. I am also humbly requesting that you extend your scholarships to more students who are bright and needy and for many days they have been missing class because of lack of money for their school fees. Shadrack Joshua Form 4.

If it were not for you I don't know where I would be. I might be employed somewhere as a houseboy. Fetus Muli Form 3

If it were up to my parentsw, I couldn't manage to attend school up to this far. Faith John Form 4

Only God can pay you for your generosity and spirit of kindness you have towards people. Caroline Mutuku Form 3

I am applying more efforts trying to save my future. If it were not for your mercies I wouldn;t have joined the scondary school three years ago. I request that if possible you help further my education next year after secondary school. Joseph Nzama Form 4

If it were not for your contribution to my schooling my life could not be the way it is. I think I could be a housegirl or married with not less than two children. My life now is going well in school. Videllis Koki form 2

If it were not for your help with my schooling I could be a wanderer on earth. Thank you Also, if it were not for your donors, our school could not be where it is now. Thank you for your concern about my education. Pascalia Munyoki Form 2

If it were not for your support I could not be in school because my parents had walked up and down looking for my school fees but it was impossible to continue with my studies. Mary Musyoka Form 1

As you dpay for our school fees, we will put more emphasis on education for we have realized that the world we are living in requires education due to advanced technology. James Robert Form 1

I am very glad to tell you that you are changing my life. if it were not for you and other donors I would be in Nairobi on the street or somewhere as a slave. Shadrack Nzyoku Form 1
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