Kenya Connect

Field Partner

Kenya Connect's mission is to engage and empower students and teachers to succeed in the 21st century. They do this by providing scholarships to underprivileged students and by breaking down local barriers to education by providing clean water, deworming programs and hand washing stations to schools, offering computer training, including STEM classes to students and teachers, building a culture of reading and strengthening literacy through their mobile library program.

Location:
Kenya
Partner Type:
Population served:
Kenya Connect serves 18,000 students in the rural village of Wamunyu. Families are extremely supportive of education despite 50% of students' families living in extreme poverty. There are currently 34 students supported of which 59% are female and 41% are male.
Student selection criteria:
Need and Merit
Services provided:
Computer training, community library, clean water and hand washing stations.
TSF student promotion rate:
2018 - 97%
2017 - 100%
2016 - 100%
2015 - 93%
2014 - 100%

Kenya Connect is raising money for 54 students' school expenses. 54 have been fully funded so far.

  • Purity Mwende

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    Purity Mwende

    Kenya

    Purity is a jovial and focused girl. She is the first born in a family of two. Her father passed on leaving behind her mother who is ailing from leukemia and unable to perform heavy tasks. Purity enjoys reading. She was Kenya Connect 2020 queen reader having read 264 books in a span of three months. She aspires to be a lawyer to help fight injustices in the country. She strongly believes that hard work never goes unrewarded

    School Year 2025

  • Felix

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    Felix

    Kenya

    Felix is the last born in a family of four. He stays with his grandmother. Their father abandoned them when he was 10 years old. His mother has been struggling to single handedly take care of the family. He loves reading and playing football and wants to be a university professor.

    School Year 2025

  • Diana Mutinda

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    Diana Mutinda

    Kenya

    Diana is a confident and hard-working girl who completed primary school at Mbaikini primary school in 2012. Her father passed away on Diana's 12th birthday when she was just in the fifth grade and she was left under the care of her aging grandmother. Through support from well-wishers, Diana was able to complete primary education and score good grades in the national exam. Diana has a budding talent for leadership and served as a class prefect all through her primary education and was appointed the school head-girl on her final year in primary school. At the end of the 2015 Diana became pregnant and was forced to dropout to care for her child. After a healthy child was born, she has decided to return to school and hopes to one day become a doctor. Unfortunately her grandmother cannot raise the money needed to take Diana to school.

    School Year 2018

  • Mutheu

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    Mutheu

    Kenya

    Mutheu is the second born in a family of three. Her father abandoned the family and her mother has remained to be the sole breadwinner. She does casual jobs to cater for her family basic needs. During her primary schooling, Mutheu was often sent home to collect school levies. Despite the challenges she faced, she emerged to be the top student in her school. Managing time well and discipline was her secret to success. Mutheu�s dream is to become journalist. She believes that nothing good goes unrewarded. She likes reading storybooks.

    School Year 2025

  • Sheila Mwikali

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    Sheila Mwikali

    Kenya

    Sheila is an orphan girl who strongly believes that hard work pays. She has never wanted any student to beat her in school and so she worked hard to be the best student in class. Despite the many challenges she faced in her primary education like going to school with taking a meal, she did her KCPE exam in 2017 and was the top girl at her school. Her ailing grandparents could not afford to pay for her school fees to join secondary school. However Sheila remains quite determined to continue secondary school and achieve her dream to be a doctor. She beliefs that eduaction is the key to successful life.

    School Year 2022

  • Kelvin

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    Kelvin

    Kenya

    Kelvin is the last born in a family of four. He loves watching and playing football. Both his parents have no jobs and are really struggling to cater for their family. He wants to become a secondary school teacher when he grows up. He is inspired to be a teacher so that he can contribute to building society through knowledge sharing.

    School Year 2025

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