Education

Access to education is a basic human right. It reduces poverty and child labor and offers the tools needed to succeed in life

• 1.9 Million – Children who are of elementary school age but are not enrolled in school.
• Education is only compulsary for children through 8th Grade.  After graduating from 8th grade, children must take an exam to see if they qualify to go onto High School.
• The average student/teacher ratio in public schools if 46 students to 1 teacher with many classrooms consisting of up to 100+ students per teacher.
• Education in Kenya is a privilege that most cannot afford.  Even free schools are not completely free so children have to stay home and work instead of going to school.
• Girls who are not in school are at a higher risk of being married at 12 and 13 years old. If they are in school, this risk reduces drastically.

Kamollo Foundation helps to break the cycle of poverty by providing for needy children through Child Sponsorship. 

If you would like to sponsor a child, click on paypal button below . Your gift will be life changing for a child who desperately wants to go to school.  It will change their whole world!