1000 Kibera slum girls empowered to excel

All 320 girls from the 17 partner schools completed their final examination without a hitch. (15 YEAR OLD MISS EXAMS TO BE WITH HER LOVER) This was the headlines in our Daily Newspapers. Our society is still very low to listening to the needs of girls and working with them towards their prosperity. Polycom Development Project using our slogan G-Pende meaning Love Yourself, dedicate her resources in ensuring that girls understands the importance of education. This is the only sure way of breaking the circle of poverty in their lives. 15 very needy girls out these 320 have already applied for education scholarship through Polycom Development Project. Can we let them down after all the encouragements, NO, with the little each one gives, our girls should join high school.

Look at these figures if you want to understand the difference your contribution makes in the lives of these girls. In 2017, we had no grant at all for our adolescent girls programs despite the numerous grant proposal we wrote to different organizations. We understand that donor funding is shrinking, but that does not mean that the needs in the community are going away, it only means that we must work harder and dig deeper into our pockets to make it happen.

1. 510 adolescent girls benefited from the Saturday weekly forums on Being Yourself, Being Empowered, Being Healthy and Being Money Savvy, no wonder there were no reports of school drop outs. 2 became pregnant but continued coming to school through our encouragment.

2. 5840 Sanitary towels were distributed to needy girls from Kibera Slums

3. 225 girls participated actively in sports activities

4. 12 girls received education scholarships under the EDUCATE HER PROJECT

5. 1020 Litres of detergents were distributed to clean the toilets

The are just but a clock of what your money did. We are approaching #GivingTuesday, kindly save 20 dollars for Kibera Girls, we love you always.

(www.polycomgirls.org)

"Look at Mum Jane, serving all of us with love, as if we are her own children, irrespective of our schools, tribes, or even economic status. I have always felt that I have a mother, eventhough my mum died when I was only 8 years old, this is what I call love!" This was part of a paragraph Winny's essay (Not her real Name) a 15 year old dolescent girls from one of the schools under Polycom Development Project's programs.

Towards the International Day of Girlchild 2017, Polycom engaged 600 girls from 17 schools to write essays on the Power of Love, 20 betst Essay writers were to attend the International Day of the Girlchild event. The essays were amazing and eye opening. the girls took their time to research and think well. They reflected on parental, romantic and even Godly love, they talked about how lives have changed through love and how our Country Kenya which is so much divided aling tribal lines should pursure love to  move forward as a country.

All the Essays were forwarded to the office, there were a set of questions set aside to ascetain that the individual girls were the writers of the essays and the girls did great. We believe that this is  as a result of the mentorship opportunities that Polycom Development Project have provided for the girls. Winners f received a school back pack and a back packs and beautiful tshirts written Power of Love. All the girls in attendance received a packet of Sanitary Towels. 

Polycom as an organization is what it is today because of love, our beloved wellwishers have donated over 23,000 US dollars on this platform for the past 3 years to get us where we are today. We successfully continue to mentor our girls to rise beyond challenges in their day to day lives and focus on education. The number one challenge is poverty, a cycle that can only be broken through education. The sports project continue to create safer spaces for girls to meet and share. Poor girls willing to pursue their secondary education have been supported, we have more girls yeaning for our support and look forward to continued support.

It is the POWER OFLOVE!