Scholarship Fund
With our scholarship fund, we were able to send three children as boarders to the Kwe Kwe secondary school for four years starting in January 2006. In 2007, we have awarded four more scholarships from this fund.
These scholarships are open to both boys and girls based on a combination of intellectual ability and need. Parents, teachers, headmasters and village leaders in the area covered by our six schools have formed a scholarship committee to select the candidates with the assistance of CAMFED – a UK organisation that helps provide secondary education to needy girls in Africa.
These scholarships pay for all tuition fees and the costs of uniforms, travelling to and from school, full board and lodging and exercise books. An ‘uncle’ or ‘aunt’ visits each child at least once per term to ensure that they do not have any problems. As the fund increases, we hope to be able to pay for secondary education for more children. The current annual cost per child is about £500.