Kibera School Sponsorship
Overview
$600 provides one child in Kibera, Kenya access to education. The donation covers school fees, uniforms, school supplies and a daily nutritional meal for an entire year!
Launched
May, 2022
Project Type
Education
Introduction
The Kibera Kids
Kibera, located in Nairobi, is one of the largest slums in the world. Although it’s only 2.5 square kilometres (roughly the size of Central Park), Kibera has an estimated population of over a million people. The slum grew from the British Colonial government’s use of severe racial segregation, labor exploitation, and political repression over a century ago. Today, it is a target of slum tourism—a growing business that exploits poverty and dehumanizes the families that live there.
Only 20% of the shacks have electricity and almost none have toilets. Until recently, the residents drank water contaminated with typhoid and cholera.
Growing up here, children quickly learn that it is unrealistic to imagine being afforded any education in this realm.
And that becomes a downward spiral for those children, and for the entire community. And that is where we come in.
This year we connected with local families and have now enrolled 50 children in school full-time.
We pay for their school fees, uniforms, and nutritional needs. Fifty children who are learning not just the basics but skills that will help them improve living conditions for their entire families. And every child needs a nutritious diet in order to learn, so we provide for their nutritional needs as well as school uniforms.
We believe in walking beside our partners when we create initiatives like this one, so we can adjust where necessary. We work with their families to help improve conditions at home, and to provide support when school is closed. We work closely with the families to carry the education through the household, and are working to establish a loaning program to alleviate every household from the grips of poverty.
Every child in our program works hard to keep their grades high, they are engaged in learning and they are dreaming about a new future. One in which there are no slums like Kibera. It’s the world we all dream of.
We would like to send even more of the Kibera Kids to school. It only costs $600 to provide all the school fees, uniforms, school supplies and a daily nutritional meal for one child for a full year.
That’s $50 a month, to change a child’s life. And the lives of those around them.
Sponsor a child or donate any amount here.
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Connection and Education
Launched in May, 2022 we have connected over 50 donors to children, enabling them attend school.
IMPACT
EDUCATION
Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world. - Nelson Mandela
43% of the girls and 29% of the boys attend no school at all
The average size of a shelter in Kibera is 12ft x 12ft - made with mud walls
Most of Kibera slum residents live in extreme poverty, earning less than $1.00 per day
43% of the girls and 29% of the boys attend no school at all
Most of Kibera slum residents live in extreme poverty, earning less than $1.00 per day
The average size of a shelter in Kibera is 12ft x 12ft - made with mud walls
Donate
Be a part of the change.
Donate to Kibera School Sponsorship
For any contribution you make, the full amount of your donation goes directly to our humanitarian work. So every dollar that is donated goes directly to helping a child in Kibera receive an education.
Where does my money go?
For any contribution you make, the full amount of your donation goes directly to our humanitarian work. So every dollar that is donated goes directly to helping a child in Kibera receive an education.