In June 2009, ground was broken in Maasai Mara,
Kenya, for a girls’ secondary school that will benefit
nine neighboring communities. Forgirlsake raised funds
for the library. The school will openits doors in
January 2011.
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2009 Maasai Mara, Kenya
In this past year we raised funds for a library at a girls'
secondary school under construction in Maasai Mara, a rural
region of Kenya with a high poverty rate. Instead, we surpassed our original fundraising goal and raise $9,600!
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2008 Sironko, Uganda
In 2007 we accomplished our goal of sending seven girls to high school. Later we discoverd that nine more girls from the same elementary school had passed the graduation exams — so how could we stop there? In 2008 we raised an additional $6,950, and now these nine other girls are also on a path that can offer them and their community new opportunities.
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2007Sironko, Uganda
In our founding year, our goal was to raise $4,200, $20 at a
time, to send five Ugandan girls to secondary school for four
years. Instead, we collected $6,350! The additional funds
enabled us to send a total of seven girls from the village
of Sironko in eastern Uganda, to Buhugo Secondary School. |
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2007-2009 Sironko, Uganda
Thanks to donations of mostly $20 since 2007, we have raised $14,625,
enabling 16 girls to attend high school in Sironko, Uganda. |
In 2009, three years after we launched Forgirlsake, we are thrilled with our success in providing educational opportunities for 16 girls in Sironko. It is equally gratifying that our sponsors believed in
us and supported us in this endeavor. With $20 donations, it is proof that every individual can make a
difference, and together we helped provide a new world of opportunity for 16 bright, eager girls.
Gimugu Kiboman, head teacher at Buhugu Secondary, writes, “In Uganda we have realized how
important it is to educate women. In fact the motto of one female hall of residence in Makerere
University sums it up, “Train a woman a nation trained”. Meaning educated women form the basis of
a wellbehaved, hardworking society. In other words they form the basis for national development.
See entire letter to our partners at African Baobab, Inc., thanking us for the funding.
A glimpse into their lives
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Jacalyn Shepherd, Co-Founder of African Baobab, Inc., listened to the stories of some of the girls we
are sending to school. Only a few edits were made to these excerpts in an effort to transcribe what was spoken.
Kainza Mary, 14
I live with my father and mother and a goat. My brother is a drop out. He stopped school because of school fees. I like commerce and English. We all knew we would pass. When I come home I wash plates with water I fetch. English, chemistry. One of the branches of science deals with the study of matter. I use a paraffin candle at night to read. I share my bed with my sister. Four sisters. We sleep on a mattress on the floor.
Muzaki Juliet, 14
My mother and three brothers and two sisters. My sister Recbecca and I sleep and talk together. We sleep on the mattress on the floor. At home we speak Lugisu. Sometimes we have soap, sometimes no food. It is dry so food shorages. We are planting beans and maize, goundnuts. Supper tonight will be cassava.
Kakayi Sharon, 14
My parents are no longer here. I stay with my aunt, a sister of my mother. I came from Busoga. I will be a doctor because I want to treat people. I have sisters and one brother. They are far away. I am 14. I like the environment here, water, Shared Blessings [local non-profit organization],a health center.
Namutosi Esther, 15
I live with my dad and step-mother. Two brothers and five sisters. We sleep together. No mosquitoe net, we have no money to buy it. My mother died. My new mother is four years with us. No breakfast, we get
food at school and that is good. No one has mosquote net, hard when sleeping on floor. Five times a year we get malaria, we buy tablets. We now have a natural resistence.
Nakusi Joyce, 15
I live with my mother and one brother and one sister. We have only a hen. No one here has a cow. I wash some plates. I dig in the garden beans and cassava. We roast it. When very hungry we eat it raw. Just get root and eat it for starch. For energy. I read biology. Some of us have bibles. We all like to sing and dance. |
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