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ROSE OF KENYA
SENDING THE POOR
TO HIGH SCHOOL
OK Scholarships
“Overcoming poverty is not a task
of charity, it is an act of justice. Like
Slavery and Apartheid. It is man-made
and it can be overcome and eradicated
by the actions of human beings.
Sometimes it falls on a generation to
be great. You can be that great generation.”
-Nelson Mandela.
“Education is
the most powerful
weapon you can use
to change the world.”
- Nelson Mandela
HELP
Send a deserving child to school for one
year or pariticpate in our joint sponsor
ship program. Or, just give us what you
can afford.
Contact Us:
Rose of Kenya Scholarships
536 E96 Street
Suite 2C
Brooklyn NY11212
Email: Rokscholarships@gmail.com
Tel: 347-763-9462
The average amount that the
teenager in the US spends on
brands can send 15 Kenyan
teens to high school each year.
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WHO IS ROSE? WHO AM I?
In 2003, the Govt OF Kenya implemented
Free Primary Education (FPE) and millions
of Kenya’s poor were able to dream, for the
first time, about something that could alter
the course of their children’s lives.
However free education was not free.
Parents had to meet several cots, including
uniforms, textbooks and meals. As a result,
sending their children to school – even at
the primary leel - became quite burdensome.
In spite of the cost, 90% of Kenyan
children manage to stay in primary school
and advance to standard 8 where they take
the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education
(KCPE) exam.
For the 45% of poor children who pass
the KCPE, an even greater hurdle awaits
and that is actually going to secondary
school. So extreme is rural poverty that
sending one child to high school for a
year can cost as much as 12 to 20 times
the monthly income of parents.As a result,
secondary education remains largely out of
reach for the poorest households. And for as
little as $200 a year, children can be denied a
high school education.
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4 students to 1 textbook KENYA
Rose Ochieng
Rose Ochieng
was a widow raising
her three children
in Nairobi,
Kenya. She dared
to dream that her
children should
get not just an
education - but a
good education.
In 2004, her son passed his KCPE, with
extremely high grades and won a place at a
national school, Rose could not afford the
fees.
This is when, by sheer coincidence, a Brooklyn
public school teacher made contact with
Rose, just in time to give Richard his big
break. She paid for Richard’s high school fees
for the four years he attended Lenana High
School. From there he received a scholarship
to study Range Management at University of
Nairobi.
In November 2013 two or so weeks before
Richard completed his degree, his mother
died suddenly. She did not see her son get his
degree or see her daughter pass her KCPE
Since it started in May 2014, ROK has
sent 18 children to high school. Still
there are many, many more sitting at
home, in Nabuyole, Kenya - waiting
for a miracle.
Be the miracle
NO DONATION IS TOO SMALL.
Use your place in life to help a child find
I shared Rose Ochieng’s dream, that education
can liberate one from poverty. In fact, born,
raised and schooled in the Caribbean, I know
first hand the struggle for poor children to get
access to quality education. I experieced also how
education can change the course of one’s life.
However, while education is supposed
to lift one out of poverty, in Kenya access
to education remains a persistent obstacle
to - even the most basic level of education.
The situation is not helped by the fact that
many school aged chldren have no parents to
care for or advocare for them due, in part, to the
ravages of HIV.In some communities pre-schools
have become orphanages where children walk in
for a meal and never walk out.
“In the circumstances”, says Chris Henry,
the founder of ROK, I felt a moral responsibility
to do more than i have done before. Sending one
child to high school was a start. Now I want to
send a village.”