Education Brings Renewed Hope for Kids in Kenya!

Throughout the months, when kids were at home instead of sitting in classrooms due to COVID-19, YOUR support helped to keep students involved and accountable.

Thank You!

Several times through the year, food supplies were delivered to students’ home.  Usually students are fed at school, but with schools shut down they now depended on their already struggling families to feed them as well. A tough situation was now made even tougher!

Students, plus other kids in the community, attended the Outreach Day designed to curb the growing teen pregnancy rate rapidly growing while students were not attending school.

Olalo team members were able to meet with students in a variety of settings just to touch base and to talk privately about how the impacts COVID-19 were affecting them and their family life.

Your support encouraged our students and let them know they were cared for, supported and you are cheering them on!

Now our students are back in the classroom and eager to continue their studies.

Thank you for supporting them. 
Education will change their lives!

Merry Broughal
Olalo of Hope – Kenya

Back in March, when Kenya closed the schools no one ever thought educating our young would come to a complete halt for months to come!

The Kenyan government initiated on-line learning networks to help students continue with their studies but students in many areas, including our own, had no means to access those online courses so their education stopped.

With almost everything else closed in the community, kids had too much time on their hands.  Many helped around their homes by planting gardens and doing other household duties.

In a three-month period after schools closed,  teen pregnancy soared to over 40% countrywide.  Our staff in Oyugis knew they needed to do something to help stop this growing concern and issue.

That’s when the Education piece of Olalo took a temporary turn to offer a new form of education….one of mentorship, information, encouragement, and education with the goal of decreasing teen pregnancy.

The Olalo Team set up a two-day Community Outreach and invited local youth ages 13 and older to attend.  Girls who attended were given sanitary pads and  boys received new underwear (something very few have ever owned).

The expectation was 150 kids would participate in the two-day outreach.  Instead, over 200 came the first day!  Those who came met together in a group before the one-on-one talks took place with each youth.

Solid connections were made between individual students and the mentoring Team promising a positive and ongoing relationship that not only would benefit the student, but the community as well.

These are certainly unsettling times, but this new education piece may be a game-changer for the youth of Oyugis.

This is all made possible because of you and your support for the education of the youth of Oyugis, Kenya.

Thank you so much for your heart for kids and education….You are changing their world!

Merry Broughal
Olalo of Hope-Kenya