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Imagining a future for Kenyan Orphans
What is life like in 2020 for the girls and women you helped empower in 2010?
So how has “Educating 80 Girls and Orphans in Kenya” impacted one of their worlds?
Life was horrible as an orphan with nothing and no resources to help me, but now I have opportunity. The lack of any hope and light in my life was profound but this project brought both. Seeing the amazing impact of education, food, and water in my young life was amazing. To be able to learn to read, to be able to do more than sit in the dust hoping for something to eat, to be able to drink water and not have it hurt my stomach. All these things have become my foundation for progress. Now that I can read and am no longer ill I can find ways to provide for myself and further my own education. Once the school received a computer with internet access I found I could learn whatever I wanted. The knowledge brought to me by education allowed me to avoid the HIV pandemic that was sweeping the area. So huge a thing is knowledge and hope, that it cannot be quantified. Those of us orphan girls who took up this opportunity have become gainfully employed and are able to feed ourselves now. I have decided to teach cla**** on HIV to the current girls to help them to avoid it or, for those who already suffer from it, to properly treat it.
By seeing how they were able to assist those in greatest need while also serving a wider societal need of clean water and electricity I could not help but realize the power of seeking out causes which are interconnected. As the old saying "a rising tide lifts all ships" goes I decided to involve myself in education and employment of the next generation of girls. Now I am helping them to draft new plans for community improvement projects and employing them to help with existing cooperative growing plans. They will never know what it is like to be hungry and ignorant and while I cannot give them parents I can give them hope and a way forward.
In 1998 the U.N. Committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) found that persistent discrimination existed against women in education. http://web.archive.org/web/20040214095325/http://www.oneworld.org/i...
But the goal of education was not a panacea, even if that hurdle was bridged equity was not yet close. http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50494
Sub-Saharan Africa was a great example of the waste of potential – almost 12 million girls were expected to never enroll in a school. Patriarchy was cited as one of the reasons as education was a potential threat. In Kenya where the project I found resides only 7 in 10 women were literate (Wikipedia).
This inspired me to choose it as my charity cause.
So how has “Educating 80 Girls and Orphans in Kenya” impacted one of their worlds?
Life was horrible as an orphan with nothing and no resources to help me, but now I have opportunity. The lack of any hope and light in my life was profound but this project brought both. Seeing the amazing impact of education, food, and water in my young life was amazing. To be able to learn to read, to be able to do more than sit in the dust hoping for something to eat, to be able to drink water and not have it hurt my stomach. All these things have become my foundation for progress. Now that I can read and am no longer ill I can find ways to provide for myself and further my own education. Once the school received a computer with internet access I found I could learn whatever I wanted. The knowledge brought to me by education allowed me to avoid the HIV pandemic that was sweeping the area. So huge a thing is knowledge and hope, that it cannot be quantified. Those of us orphan girls who took up this opportunity have become gainfully employed and are able to feed ourselves now. I have decided to teach cla**** on HIV to the current girls to help them to avoid it or, for those who already suffer from it, to properly treat it.
By seeing how they were able to assist those in greatest need while also serving a wider societal need of clean water and electricity I could not help but realize the power of seeking out causes which are interconnected. As the old saying "a rising tide lifts all ships" goes I decided to involve myself in education and employment of the next generation of girls. Now I am helping them to draft new plans for community improvement projects and employing them to help with existing cooperative growing plans. They will never know what it is like to be hungry and ignorant and while I cannot give them parents I can give them hope and a way forward.
In 1998 the U.N. Committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) found that persistent discrimination existed against women in education. http://web.archive.org/web/20040214095325/http://www.oneworld.org/i...
But the goal of education was not a panacea, even if that hurdle was bridged equity was not yet close. http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50494
Sub-Saharan Africa was a great example of the waste of potential – almost 12 million girls were expected to never enroll in a school. Patriarchy was cited as one of the reasons as education was a potential threat. In Kenya where the project I found resides only 7 in 10 women were literate (Wikipedia).
This inspired me to choose it as my charity cause.
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