It’s a sigh of reduction for the dad and mom and guardians of 120 needy college students who excelled in KCPE after a non-governmental organisation awarded them a ten-year scholarship protecting secondary and college schooling.
Hatua Community, incepted in 2007 by Peter Kwame and Gabrielle Fondiller, who have been conducting analysis on the Likoni Ferry Crossing channel, has to date sponsored 1000 youngsters from underprivileged households to entry schooling.
Hatua Community Govt Director Gabrielle Fondiller says they have been interviewing avenue distributors promoting tomatoes, potatoes, and bananas on the facet of the street.
“We have been studying concerning the methods their incomes assist their households, how their revenue is unable to assist their households, and the way they handle these difficult conditions,” mentioned Fondiller on the Star of the Sea Corridor in Mombasa.
“We realised that throughout each dad or mum that we spoke to, each particular person working laborious to lift their youngsters, their primary aspiration was to offer their children with higher high quality schooling so the children can stay a high quality life sooner or later,” she added.
To offer again to the distributors, the duo determined to sponsor seven youngsters of the distributors they’d interviewed, however resulting from overwhelming demand and the influence, they needed to enhance the variety of beneficiaries.
This 12 months, the organisation acquired greater than 1000 functions. Candidates have been chosen based mostly on KCPE efficiency and the extent of want. They may obtain secondary faculty and college scholarships, mentoring, mushy expertise, counselling, and steering.
“As of as we speak,” says Fondiller, “we’ve sponsored 1,000 college students, which we’re very enthusiastic about.”
The scholars from underprivileged households doing nicely at school have been chosen with the assist of academics from throughout the general public colleges in Mombasa.
Talking on the occasion, Mombasa County Govt for Training and Digital Transformation, Mbwarali Kame, lauded the organisation for augmenting the county authorities’s efforts in schooling. He welcomed different organisations to roll out comparable programmes.
“We have now been working intently with Hatua Community, and shortly we can have a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). We’re scouting for an space the place the organisation will construct a contemporary library in Mombasa County. The MOU is within the pipeline, and the fashionable library will probably be realised quickly,” revealed CECM Kame.
Mwanzala Obuya, a beneficiary of the scholarship from the Likoni constituency, couldn’t cover her pleasure after her dream to hitch secondary faculty turned a actuality.
“At this time I’m completely happy and honoured to be awarded a scholarship by Hatua Community. I do know every little thing I need, and the college that I’m going to can pay for me,” she mentioned.
On their half, dad and mom expressed their gratitude to the organisation, noting that the scholarship will play a significant position of their youngsters’s future.
Peris Kule, a dad or mum, mentioned, “I’m excited that my son has gotten a scholarship; I’m grateful I had no means; now he will probably be educated from secondary to school. I’ll inform him to work laborious to interrupt the vicious cycle of poverty.”
By Sadik Hassan and Abdulrahman Allui
