How to Help

 

Building a High School

     for Girls in Kenya

There are many ways to help build the school and support the students. If you desire, your gift can be given to honor a relative or a friend. We’ll send a lovely gift card with pictures and a bit of the story of how the project began.


Donate to the Building Fund

Your gift will help complete the second dorm, 3 more classrooms, the infirmary or teacher housing.


Sponsor a Student

The cost of tuition, room and board for 1 year is $650, (about $50 per month or $2 per day). You can sponsor a girl at St Francis Xavier or a boy at Archbishop Ndingi. Both are schools of Fr Kiriti’s parish.


Read about Charity, who is sponsored at St. Francis Girls High School by the Key Club at Menlo-Atherton High School in California.


Read about 4 of the Lost Boys of Sudan who are currently enrolled in Archbishop Ndingi.


Host a Fundraiser

Invite your friends to hear about the school and the rest of our project. We do a great powerpoint presentation. We talk about our need for funds, but do not do a “hard sell.”


Help Build a Water Cistern

Water is a particularly important issue in this area. We need to store rain from the rainy season to fill our needs during the dry season. In addition, well water in Naivasha is naturally highly fluoridated and not healthy to drink it. If you know someone with expertise or contacts in the water storage area, please contact Margo McAuliffe at margo@kenyahelp.us


Help Solarize the School

Sunlight is in plentiful supply in Kenya, we could save costs and help the environment by using solar power to operate the school. Please contact Margo McAuliffe at margo@kenyahelp.us with any contacts or information on funding.


Help us Connect to the Internet

Please contact Margo McAuliffe at margo@kenyahelp.us with any contacts or information on helping the school connect to the Internet.


Purchase Note Cards

Kenyan artist Calestor Kizito has made the beautiful paintings for this set of note cards to help raise money for the school. A set of 10 cards, each with a different scene, can be purchased for $20 per set. See all the cards, and read a letter from the artist.


To order cards, please send a check for $20 per set with "Kizito cards" on memo line, made out to:

Kenya Help

PO Box 516

Menlo Park, CA 94026

Phone: 650 322-0821


Or send email to

margo@kenyahelp.us





Kenya Help has no paid positions.


All operating costs are underwritten, so 100% of your donation goes to the project in Kenya (where there are also no paid positions to oversee construction.)