Lwak Girls High School, Kenya
Students selected for sponsorship January 2008
Girls from small villages in Rarieda, one of Kenya’s poorest districts, attend LWAK. This boarding school provides an all-round academic education, life skills including health and sex education plus empowerment and leadership skills that will prepare them to be role models and leaders in their communities. This year LWAK earned a ranking of 74th out of Kenya’s 4000 high schools.
GGAC supports CANRAD (Canada/Kenya – Rarieda Development Program), an organization founded by two Canadian women. CANRAD's mission is to sponsor young African women from the community of Rarieda in Kenya to be future leaders through education.
Students are selected by a committee made up of a Kenyan government education representative, school headmasters, village elders and Kaye Jackson who is a founder of CANRAD. The selection is based on need, grade school marks, and likelihood of success. This community-based selection process has been deemed “the fairest ever conducted in the region.” In return for the gift of education, each student is obligated to do one hundred hours of community service at LGHS or in the community. Students who fail their year lose their funding. Only primary school is free in Kenya.
Of the five girls in form 4, (final year), one earned an A average, one earned a B, three earned B-'s ….remarkable achievements from girls with family tragedy and difficult living experiences in their immediate pasts.
Some examples of support are:
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$600.00 provides one girl with school fees, board, uniform, and books for one year at the LWAK Girls High School
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$100.00 will build the capacity of the LGHS by buying a significant package of texts, books, teaching and learning guides and school lab supplies.
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$17.00 will provide personal allowance for sponsored girls for one semester for soap, toothpaste, sanitary pads and personal needs.
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Any amount will help to sponsor a girl or build capacity at the LWAK Girls High School
I VERY MUCH THANK YOU…
Millicent Aoko Obiero’s father died when she was one and her mother died two years later. GGAC/CANRAD has sponsored her since 2006 when she was in Form 1. Through hard work, she managed to stand 45 out of 199 Form One students at the Lwak Girls High School. Millicent wrote:
“I very much thank you for your help. I could not have been at school as at now, not even a day school. You have really made me dream of a better future.
I never knew that I would one day continue with my education after finishing my primary school education, but because God has plans for his people, he chose me out of the many needy people so that I could be sponsored by you. This makes me feel as if I still have my parents who care for me.
The CANRAD Leadership Project has also helped me a lot especially in what one needs to become a good leader or role model to other people. I pray to God so that he can help you to live longer and continue with your helpful work to other people like me. I wish the CANRAD Leadership Project a successful development.”
By,
Millicent Aoko Obiero