Project Report
| Mar 28, 2022
ANOTHER EDUCATED WOMAN ON HER WAY TO THE FUTURE
By Debra aka Brique Zeiner | Chairwoman
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Danny's graduation photo
Danny was a skinny little 6-year-old coming from a family of 6 children - 5 girls and one boy. Her parents sell vegetables on the streets of the Nakuru slums. Their poverty was obvious when visiting their home - but their wealth was always obvious by their cleanliness and sparkling smiles!
Danny's special talents showed from a very young age. She would sing and speak and give speeches with such confidence that it was hard to believe her origin. She always walked with her head held high. She knew that Live and Learn in Kenya International was providing her with the best possible education - and she proved herself worthy.
Danny always did her level best at school - and was rewarded with outstanding grades. After successfully graduating high school she went on to study at Maseno University and majoring in Arts and Social Science.
Last month Danny proudly graduated with a B average. Now, this lovely, strong, and intelligent young woman can stride into the future with everything that it takes to be a major success and pass her experiences on to many other young people - and to her own future children. We are proud of her!
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A proud young woman - Danny
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Jan 24, 2022
Let's Get These Young Women Motivated
By Debra aka Brique Zeiner | Chairwoman
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Luciana during her graduation ceremony
It's a hard world out there - both for men and women - but let's face it, women have so many more challenges to struggle through to be able to reach their educational goals in life - especially the girls born into poverty. Young women need to know that if they motivate themselves and stay focused to be all that they can be, they will be rewarded with the financial funding to reach their goal. They should not fear that, even if they work hard in school, they will end up living the same life of poverty as their own mothers because of a lack of funds to attend college or university. Young women need to know who they are - what their own personal possibilities are, and how to reach their goals.
At Live and Learn in Kenya International we accentuate the fact that girls are just as good as boys from nursery school up to university. Our goal is to provide the means for all of the girls to be educated in the way they themselves see fit. But it is important that they know that they aren't working hard just to end up in the same situation as their mothers before them - a life of poverty and doing casual work instead of what they really want and have the intelligence to do.
Dreams are just something to wake up from if you don't do something to make them happen. We at Live and Learn in Kenya International have made it our own goal to give every single girl on our program the possibility to be all that she can be and to make her dreams come true - whether it is to be a self-reliant seamstress or a doctor - she must be given the means to make her dreams come true. We are empowering girls to grow into women who will make changes in the world! And because of your wonderful donations, we are making it happen - even for the poorest of the poor!
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Oct 25, 2021
FEES, Trials and Tribulations
By Debra aka Brique Zeiner | Chairwoman
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From school girls to strong & educated women
Sometimes it's just necessary to just stop - take a long breath - sit back and look at what you've achieved and consider what still needs to be achieved in order to reach your goal.
This is the situation with the high school, college, and university fundraising efforts at the Live and Learn in Kenya Education Center.
Covid 19 has thrown us off balance and we are wracking our brains trying to keep up with the ongoing costs of the education center, of paying all of the school, college, and university fees, paying our staff and teachers, and feeding the children. It would be one of those wonderful - out of the blue - acts of kindness to receive the funds to keep our pupils and students in school and in universities. The girls and young women are the most vulnerable of our students. If they are not able to go on with their studies due to fees and textbooks and supplies costs, they will drop out and never reach their goals in life. They will not end up like their mothers before them because they are at least able to attend school for 8 years. They have learned to read, write and use their logical brains to solve problems that are just mysteries to their mothers - but without further education, they will never reach their potential.
So we at Live and Learn in Kenya International are doing our level best to give these girls and young women all of the necessary tools to reach their potential - to realize their worth and what they can do to change their own situations that were slammed into their beings by being born into extreme poverty. They must all have the chance to be all that they can be and pay back to society what is being given to them - the power of knowledge and education.
"She believed that she could, so she did!" quote by RS Grey
Asante sana - thank you to all who have been supporting our work. Without our wonderful and generous supporters, we would never get anywhere!
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