PLANT-A-BOOK INTERNATIONAL HELPS NAIROBI KIDS

Plant-a-Book International helps Nairobi Kids! This blog represents two registered nonprofit organizations, PAB and KKIN-UK, that provide support for the students at Galilee Primary School and Waddington High School, and children living in the Holly House orphanages in the slums of Nairobi Kenya. We are dedicated to lifting children from poverty through literacy and education. For more information, please visit PAB's website at www.plantabook.org.

Friday, April 22, 2011

Friday's Featured Child - A Very Bright Young Lady


Meet Rachol W. - HS131
Update - Rachol has found a sponsor!!!!
Rachol is 13 years old and in Form 1.  She lives with her parents and her chore is cooking.  She has one brother and two sisters.  Rachol enjoys reading and her best subject is English.  She would like to be a lecturer someday. She is a very bright girl and placed 15th out of 64 in her mid-term exams. Rachol's birthday is Sept. 3, 1997.

Although girls comprise 48% of all primary school students in Kenya, less then 30% of them ever make it into Secondary school, and of this 30% even fewer complete their secondary school education. Poverty, early marriage, and the need for girls to contribute financially to maintaining households all lead to the disappointing discrepancies in girls access to education.
In Kenya, 1.6 million girls are high school dropouts. If they could finish their secondary education, they would make 30% more money – and contribute $3.2 billion to the Kenyan economy every year.

In addition, 40% of adolescent girls in Kenya with no education are pregnant versus 26% of those who completed only primary school and only 8% of those with secondary education or higher (note: 40% of deaths from botched abortions are adolescent girls (CSA 2008)
 
For only $12.50 per month you can help Rachol not to become a statistic.
Please email info@nairobikids.org learn how you can help today.

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