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New cooperation with Shining Hope’s Kibera School for Girls. Now you can help!

Posted on 01/01/2011 at 08:47AM

We’re very proud to announce that we have just signed a new cooperation with the Kibera Primary School for Girls, run by Shining Hope for Communities in Nairobi. Aiducation will offer scholarships for the secondary education of 15 girls each year, just after they graduate from Kibera Primary School, and take them one step closer to the fulfillment of their dreams.

We are very proud to announce that we have just signed a new cooperation with the Kibera Primary School for Girls, run by Shining Hope for Communities in Nairobi. Aiducation will offer scholarships for the secondary education of 15 girls each year, just after they graduate from Kibera Primary School, and take them one step closer to the fulfillment of their dreams. Set in the centre of Kenya’s biggest slum, the Kibera School for Girls opened in 2009 as the first and only tuition-free school for girls in the area. More than 1.5 million people live in the Kibera slum in the heart of Nairobi. No public services such as public schools are available to residents. Access to clean water and electricity is almost non-existent; HIV rates are some of the highest in the world; a fifth of all children die before the age of five; and roughly 66% of young women routinely trade sex for food.

In this difficult climate, the Kibera School provides the poorest and most talented girls living in the slum with an innovative, creative curriculum and with inspiring, well paid teachers.

Realizing the powerful impact Aiducation and Shining Hope could achieve by working together, we sent representatives to visit the Kibera School for Girls. After the visit, Aiducation offered to sponsor 15 high-achieving primary school graduates each year, for the best private boarding school education. As co-founder Jessica Posner explains, “We were already thinking about ways to guarantee students education that won’t stop in eighth grade”. By providing secondary education, daily nourishment, uniforms, and school supplies, Aiducation is able to help the brightest girls most at-risk for abuse and starvation. This means a commitment of £1,500 or €1600 per student from our sponsors.

Thanks to this new partnership, we can take these young girls a step further and ensure that they sustainably break out of the cycle of poverty. “The partnership creates a really strong match as we both support bright and needy students to help them reach their full potential and return to Kibera not as vulnerable children, but as leaders that can instigate change”, says Florian Kapitza, CEO of Aiducation International.

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