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August 28, 2009
Education for poor families in Kibera has received a major boost through a new foundation. The Children of Kibera Foundation is already helping orphans and needy pupils and students in Africa’s largest slum. Set up by Kibera-born Ken Okoth in 2006, the foundation has been able to source money to pay for 15 students through their entire secondary education. In 2008, the organization sponsored the first group of four girls to enter Form 1, and this year they were able to sponsor eleven more. According to the project coordinator, Mr. Japheth Ochieng, this has been realized through mostly US... Read More
August 26, 2009
The New Year has come with a pleasant surprise for some of last year’s Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examination candidates.
Eleven of them at Nairobi’s Kibera slum, six of them girls, were on Friday given secondary education scholarships by non-profit organisation Children of Kibera Foundation (CoFK).
The organisation decided that because the pupils performed well in an environment fraught with little food and comfort as well as inadequate reading materials shows that there is a great potential that could go to waste due to poverty if not tapped.
The CoFK intends t... Read More