Educate girls and fight poverty in Kenya

Women's Global Education Project's Sisters to School program takes a holistic, community-led approach to dismantle the complex barriers that keep girls from attending school.

We provide comprehensive school scholarships and mentoring to girls, reproductive health workshops, and after-school clubs. We also host community outreach and mobilization activities to better educate parents, boys, and community members on the importance of girls’ education.

Read how Diana, a 23-year-old scholar from Tharaka-Nithi county, Kenya, was impacted by the Sisters to School program:

How did WGEP support your education? Sisters to School molded me to be who I am today. I was able to learn how to improve my self-esteem because I had very low self-esteem since my childhood. It was through this that I was able to fight for my rights as a girl child and I started taking everything positively. In 2021, I graduated from the University of Eldoret with a Bachelor’s Degree in Agricultural Education, with honors, and am now working as an intern with WGEP! I joined the Sisters to School program in 2008 in 5th grade, and was a scholar for a total of 14 years before graduating! 

What are your goals? I want to help the Tharaka community achieve food security by working on interventions and innovations: discovering new ways of teaching the community on how to use limited resources in agriculture to minimize inputs and maximize outputs! After my internship, I want to secure a full-time job to provide for my family, and to invest for my generations to come. 

How will you support other girls as an intern with WGEP? I will impact the community by guiding other scholars so that they can become prominent people in the society through counselling, advice and moral support. I will also teach parents on how to better understand their children so that they can better support them and their education.

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