Wema Children's Centre

Field Partner

Wema Children's Centre and Highway Academy are a private orphanage and school in Western Kenya in an area with some of the highest poverty and HIV/AIDS rates. Kenyans Teresa Wati and Stephen Juma formed Wema to give poor and orphaned children a home and a high quality education. Today at Wema, 510 children are provided with a loving home, three nutritious meals a day, and most importantly, an education at one of the highest performing primary and secondary schools in Kenya.

Location:
Bukembe Village, Bungoma, Kenya
Partner Type:
Community Based Organization, Private Primary & Secondary School
Population served:
Orphans and vulnerable children from the Village of Bukembe, a poor community of 10,0000 people in rural western Kenya. There are currently 510 students enrolled at Wema evenly split by gender.
Student selection criteria:
Wema does significant outreach into the local community to inform families that their children are eligible for full scholarships. The prospective students are required to take verbal and written tests and they and their families are interviewed at the school. At least 50% of accepted students are female.
Services provided:
Education, boarding, meals, textbooks, counseling (social, college, career), training (agricultural, computer), athletics, clubs and healthcare support.
TSF student promotion rate:
2018 - 100%
2017 - 100%
2016 - 100%
2015 - 100%
2014 - 100%

Wema Children's Centre is raising money for 70 students' school expenses. 70 have been fully funded so far.

  • Joy

    100%

    Joy

    Kenya

    Joy loves Swahili and languages. She comes from a large family who is illiterate. She needs supoport for her secondary education and hopes to become a leader in her community.

    • Raised $600
    • Needs $0

    School Year 2025

  • Willington

    100%

    Willington

    Kenya

    Willington loves math and school. He is raised by a single parent who does not have any stable form of employment to sustain her eight children. He needs help to get a secondary school education.

    • Raised $600
    • Needs $0

    School Year 2025

  • Marko

    100%

    Marko

    Kenya

    Marko lives with his mum, a single parent who is overburdened by raising her kids ever since the death of their father in 2012.

    • Raised $600
    • Needs $0

    School Year 2025

  • Milcah

    100%

    Milcah

    Kenya

    Milcah's father, the sole breadwinner, got an injury that crippled him making him unable to work. She and her siblings were left with no one to support them. She needs help continuing with her education.

    • Raised $600
    • Needs $0

    School Year 2025

  • Simon

    100%

    Simon

    Kenya

    Simon lives with his brother and unemployed mother. He loves science and social studies. He would like to become an agriculturalist some day. 

    • Raised $600
    • Needs $0

    School Year 2025

  • Bretta

    100%

    Bretta

    Kenya

    Both of Bretta's parents are in the latter stages of HIV and therefore unable to provide for her. She needs help to continue with her education.

    • Raised $600
    • Needs $0

    School Year 2025

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