Thanks to all of your online donations...combined with our offline donations we hve managed to hit our very first milestone, and have been able to pay for Hellen, Edward, and Alice to go to school for the next year!

We still need your help in getting the rest of their expenses covered...and the big one Millicents Nursing School tuition!

Keep spreading the word and thank you for being so incredibly generous in this new year!

Jaime

The Song for Africa Scholarship sponsors carefully selected students from the Kibera slums in Nairobi, Kenya. It gives them the opportunity to complete secondary education, instills confidence, and gives them hope for the future.

More specifically, the scholarship currently provides funds for four students. It covers school fees, uniforms, reference books, and other services, such as psychosocial support, to ensure that the recipients and their families are as stable as possible on all fronts.

ALICE AKINYI – 16 years old

Alice has lived in the Kibera slums her whole life. She shares a one room house with her parents and her three siblings. Despite the hardships, she has a positive outlook and is determined to finish school and achieve her goals.

EDWARD OMONDI – 19 years old

Edward is a determined young man who has worked hard in an unfriendly environment to find his place at Got Agulu Secondary School. He now enjoys the simple provisions supplied by the school such as water, food, bedding and books. His favorite subject is English and he dreams of becoming a journalist.

MILLICENT ADHIAMBO – 21 years old

Millicent has overcome the odds and thanks to the SFA Scholarship Fund, she is currently a student at the Cicely McDonnell School of Nursing. In the past year, she has grown into a confident young woman who can adapt to her environment.

“I feel good being here, I am learning to cope with different kinds of characters and people, being here has changed my way of thinking, I am able to be more tolerant.”

“Being here has made me realise that your background doesn’t matter, that out of over one hundred 1^st year nursing students, I am the only one from Kibera. When I tell them that, they don’t believe it.”

HELLEN NDUKU

Hellen is an orphan whose only living relatives are her grandparents. She has spent most of her life at the Baraka za Ibrahim Centre, an informal school in Kibera. Her dream is to become a musician.