Africa Educational Trust
- Leigh and Day Project: A small project to provide support and education for orphans in Northern Kenya.
Annie L. Jeter (ALJ) Scholarships
- Designed to support school fees for deserving students whose families cannot afford the cost of an education. The ALJ Scholarship includes, but is not limited to primary school fees, secondary school fees, room and board, exam fees, books and other school-related items like uniforms, shoes, etc.
- Partner with a select number of brilliant, highly motivated young girls and make long term commitments to help them attain their leadership potential. Akili Dada canvasses for scholarship recipients in the poorest areas of Kenya. We commit to paying all tuition fees, and we expect the student’s parents to remain active partners in their daughter’s education by providing for necessities such as uniforms and school supplies.
Ambassadors Girls’ Scholarship Program (AGSP)
- The Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) currently implements the AGSP in Nyanza, Rift Valley, Central, Coast, Western, Eastern and North Eastern regions of Kenya, with a majority of girls concentrated in the Northeastern Region (Wajir and Mandera), Coast Region (Mombasa, Kwale, Taita, Taveta and Lamu), and Nairobi (including the slums of Dagoretti, Embakasi, Kasarani, and Starehe). . Through the AGSP, FAWE Kenya provides scholarships to girls in primary and secondary school who qualify based on the needs-based criteria of HIV/AIDS infection or affection, poverty, orphans and those needy and challenged by any special need.
- enhances the status of women in the community and promotes environmental awareness with a goal of preserving natural resources. BEADS programs provide school scholarships for African girls, promote business development for African women and support conservation through education.
Canadian Harambee Education Society
- Provides support for female students, paying school fees for girls who meet scholastic standards in Kakamega, Kenya
- creates a scholarship fund to help intelligent Kenyan students with limited financial resources to pursue and successfully complete secondary education. To be considered for the scholarship, the applicant must have completed the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) in the preceding year with a minimum grade of “B” and must be in the top 10% of his or her class. The recipient must have received admission to a public or private secondary school that is recognized as such by the Ministry of Education in Kenya. The scholarship, in most cases, will cover 100% of the tuition, dormitory room and board (where applicable), and other associated costs, such as books, uniforms, travel, and a monthly stipend.
Free The Children – Adopt a Village in Action: Kenya
- works with communities in the rural Maasai Mara. The communities we work with are Maasai or Kipsigis, pastoral people who face significant challenges that threaten the way they live. This region of Kenya has the highest primary school dropout rate in the country, a direct result of poor educational facilities, the need for children to tend to cattle and goats, and the lack of educational and health support. Frequent droughts and flooding add to these challenges.
- Adopt a Village in Kenya provides quality education in communities where there is often no school. Our mobile health clinic and education initiatives address specific health concerns including HIV/AIDS. Alternative income initiatives include milking animals and a women’s beading cooperative. The development of clean water projects specifically address the prevalence of water-borne disease and the inaccessible distance of rural water sources.
Helping Youth Through Educational Scholarships (“HYTES”)
- Provides educational scholarships to youth in developing countries to advance and grow themselves, contribute to their community and benefit society.
Hilde Back Education Fund (HBEF)
- is a charitable community-based group registered under the laws of Kenya to pursue the following objectives:
- To provide education scholarships and othe r academic opportunities to bright children from poor families and disadvantaged communities
- To unlock the unexplored potential in children and young persons from disadvantaged communities by making available to them a wide variety of new local and international opportunities in the areas of education, arts, sports, science and modern technology
- To inculcate public service values on the youth by encouraging them to participate in community development projects aimed at achieving community self-reliance and advancement
- To protect and promote the right of education for all, as provided for under international human rights instruments
Jomo Kenyatta Foundation
- The JKF scholarship scheme is an educational fund set up by the Foundation to assist bright but needy secondary school students in the public secondary schools in Kenya.
- The JKF scholarship programme was started in 1968 and has to date assisted more than 10,000 Kenyan students pursue secondary school education. This translates to an expenditure of over Kshs. 400 million in the last 40 years. JKF is currently supporting a total of 1,280 beneficiaries in various public secondary schools across the country.
Kenya Community Development Foundation (KCDF)
- Scholarship grants that support local organizations and secondary schools to facilitate the secondary education of poor and needy Kenyan youth. Four year maximum for school fees only (boarding, examination and tuition fees). Continuing students requiring less years are eligible and is subject to continued satisfactory performance by the student. Priority will be given to organizations that encourage students’ families and communities to make at least some contribution towards the expenses of the student.
Maasai Education Discovery (MED)
- A not-for-profit 501 (c) (3) organization located in Boston, Massachusetts, London, England and Narok, Kenya. MED was founded in 1999 by Ledama Olekina, a Maasai from Kenya to promote education for the Maasai people. The Maasai Foundation of America, INC., and numerous other anonymous donors, sponsor over 800 Maasai students a year to attend primary, secondary and tertiary level of education. The program targets Maasai children, mostly girls who, for various reasons, lack the resources and opportunity to pursue their education. The program works toward increasing the retention level of Maasai children in schools.
Kenya Education Fund
- KEF GIVES students A CHANCE TO STAY IN SCHOOL WE PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIPS BASED ON NEED AND MERIT TO STUDENTS ACROSS KENYA
- 660 active scholarships in 2017
- 2,400+ students provided scholarships since 2001
Sango Association
- Fosters synergistic partnerships dedicated to enhancing the education and educational achievement of disadvantaged high school students in Luo Nyanza Kenya.
- The objectives of the Sango Association are to: Provide financial assistance to deserving students who are either orphans and/or living in poverty and cannot afford high school fees and Assists schools in Luo Nyanza to acquire much needed expendables and laboratory equipment, books, computers, and physical improvements to the schools.
- WILL DURING THE YEAR 2010 SPONSOR OR SUPPORT AT LEAST 10 NEEDY STUDENTS WHO EXCELLED IN THEIR EXAMS IN YEAR 2009 KCSE EXAMS BUT DO NOT HAVE ANY MEANS OF PURSUING HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION.
- QUALIFICATION : AS A MINIMUM ONE MUST HAVE ATTAINED 380 MARKS IN K.C.P.E.
- FOR CONSIDERATION OR TO OBTAIN THE APPLICATION FORM PLEASE CONTACT – THE PRINCIPAL, ST.JOSEPH MATUU HIGH SCHOOL, P.O. BOX 112-90119, MATUU. e-mail: stjosephmatuuhs@gmail.com; Telephone : 0722 388 681 , 0736 189 255
- THE DIRECTORS OF ST.JOSEPH MATUU HIGH SCHOOL CONSIDER COMMUNITY SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY TO BE AT THE EPICENTER OF THE INSTITUTE’S DEVELOPMENT. THIS SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME WILL BE SUSTAINED EVERY YEAR TO BE COMPETED FOR BY NEW AND CONTINUING STUDENTS.
Tumaini Scholarship for Vocational Training
- Supports young people pursuing vocational training such as carpentry, tailoring, mechanics, masonry, etc. The goal of the program is to alleviate poverty by empowering youth and equipping them with the necessary skills to compete in the job market, reduce unemployment, and support their families.
UNICEF Canada – Kenyan Girls’ Scholarship Programme
- has created a four-year scholarship programme for nomadic girls. Working with community and religious leaders and the Ministry of Education, UNICEF identifies 60 of the most deserving girls from poor Nomadic communities to further their education. The scholarship provides a bright young woman with enough funding for four years to cover all the costs related to secondary school education, including uniforms, school supplies, transport, housing spending money and the guidance of a volunteer female mentor.
- A program geared towards providing exceptional young African women from rural and disadvantaged backgrounds, the opportunity to attend some of the best Universities in the United States of America.