School Sponsorships for Kenyan Girls

Since 1998, BEADS sponsors have empowered over 500 girls in Kenya with the gift of education! Join us today and become part of a life-changing journey transforming not only the lives of the girls you support but also your own.

Most traditional Kenyan families cannot afford to pay school tuition fees for their daughters. A young Kenyan girl who remains uneducated risks a future filled with illiteracy, poor health, poverty and oppression.

Sponsoring a girl's education will make a huge difference in her life, and it will directly help future generations of her family.

Since 1998 BEADS for Education has sponsored the schooling of more than 320 girls thanks to people like you who have become BEADS sponsors.

Sponsorships begin in elementary school and can continue through college.

The girls come from several different tribes, but most are Maasai.

Girls are required to maintain satisfactory grades, attend workshops, and provide school reports. The girls also communicate regularly with their sponsors, and many have made lifelong friendships.

After high school, each girl works as a teaching intern for one year in a remote, public school, assisting in the educations of even more young girls. When she has successfully completed her BEADS internship, she is eligible to continue to college through her BEADS sponsorship.

It is no exaggeration to say that your sponsorship, though it starts with one girl, helps to change the entire world. If you would like to sponsor a girl, please contact Debby Rooney today.

Without an education

Without access to education, a Maasai girl is likely to remain illiterate and dependent. Many are forced into marriage by age 15 to much older men, often as a second or third wife. From her teenage years, she may bear seven or more children, continuing the cycle of poverty and inequality.

With an education

With education, a Maasai girl can pursue a career of her choice and uplift her family’s standard of living. She will likely marry a man of her choosing, be his sole wife, and have fewer children whom she is far more likely to educate, both boys and girls.

Together we are changing lives -- one girl at a time.

For more information or to select a girl to sponsor, contact Debby Rooney at BEADSofKenya@aol.com or by calling (US) 609-992-7891. You can also learn more by clicking below.

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