Meet Winfred
Winfred (aged 14) is in form 1, her birthday is Feb 4th. She lives with her mother, father and two siblings in the Soweto slums. Her mother works hard to provide for her family by washing clothes for people and her father is unemployed. Winfred likes to read and would like to be a nurse one day. She scored 75 in Kiswahili and 84 in history, but only 8 in Maths. She would really benefit from someone writing to her offering encouragement. Winfred is still in need of a school uniform – a uniform is important in the slums because it offers an element of protection from `unwanted attention'.
Galilee Primary and Waddington High School offers the students a safe environment, with support, supervision and socialization. Here they learn life skills that can help them prevent diseases, like how to avoid HIV/AIDS and malaria in additional to a valuable education. It has also been found that educating a girls also dramatically reduces the chance her child will die before age five.
Unfortunately students who do not receive an education increases their vulnerability to abuse, exploitation and disease. Girls, more than boys, are at greater risk of such abuse when they are not in school. For the Kayole - Soweto slums, the schools also provides a safe haven for children, a place where they can find companionship, adult supervision, latrines, clean water, meals and health care.
Yet even these basics are beyond reach for hundreds of children in the slums of Kenya. These children are deprived of their right to education because their families cannot afford school fees or other related costs, or because they so poor the children have to work to help put food on the table.
Please consider becoming Winfred's sponsor today and help ensure she gets the education she badly needs to help end the cycle of poverty.
Email info@nairobikids.org today.
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