March 2018
Dear Sponsors and Friends,
We are pleased to introduce you to our second graduating class from Tembea Academy, the BEADS High School. The graduates are now interning as teachers at our primary school before they are eligible to enter college. Fifty of our sponsored girls are now attending colleges studying to be nurses, accountants, teachers, and a chemical engineer among other majors. Thanks to your support, our success is epitomized by our college graduates - over 40- who finished their education, are marrying a man of their choice, having 3 or less children and securing good jobs.
2017 TEMBEA ACADEMY GRADUATES
Graduate Cynthia teaching at our primary school
My great niece Sophia, Sister Sue and me on safari. On this trip we also interviewed and accepted 20 girls from the remote Masai Mara region. These girls are from traditional Maasai families and many of their fathers have more than 4 wives and 30 or more children. They have just started 9th grade at our high school and are smart, hard-working and a joy to teach.
Many sponsors joined us for the graduation celebrations and continued on for safari.
I hope you will join us January 2019
ALL of these girls need sponsors to continue their education and I hope you will share this with your friends. Together we ARE changing girls’ lives – one girl at a time. Thank you from all the sponsored girls, their families and communities.
Debby Rooney/BEADS Cofounder
609-823-7701