Enpowering Young Women Through Education

Sometimes it's just necessary to just stop - take a long breath -  sit back and look at what you've achieved and consider what still needs to be achieved in order to reach your goal.

This is the situation with the high school, college, and university fundraising efforts at the Live and Learn in Kenya Education Center.

Covid 19 has thrown us off balance and we are wracking our brains trying to keep up with the ongoing costs of the education center, of paying all of the school, college, and university fees, paying our staff and teachers, and feeding the children. It would be one of those wonderful - out of the blue - acts of kindness to receive the funds to keep our pupils and students in school and in universities. The girls and young women are the most vulnerable of our students. If they are not able to go on with their studies due to fees and textbooks and supplies costs, they will drop out and never reach their goals in life. They will not end up like their mothers before them because they are at least able to attend school for 8 years. They have learned to read, write and use their logical brains to solve problems that are just mysteries to their mothers - but without further education, they will never reach their potential.

So we at Live and Learn in Kenya International are doing our level best to give these girls and young women all of the necessary tools to reach their potential - to realize their worth and what they can do to change their own situations that were slammed into their beings by being born into extreme poverty. They must all have the chance to be all that they can be and pay back to society what is being given to them - the power of knowledge and education.

"She believed that she could, so she did!" quote by RS Grey

Asante sana - thank you to all who have been supporting our work. Without our wonderful and generous supporters, we would never get anywhere!