Featured School: Kabare Secondary School, Central Province, Kenya

Kabare Girls Secondary School is a boarding school situated just southwest of Mount Kenya, Africa’s second largest mountain, in Kirinyaga district. Kirinyaga is rural and densely populated, with many villages and good rainfall. The people of the district, and the girls at the school, are mostly from the Kikuyu people.

Here at Kabare, Growth Through Learning sponsors thirteen very talented girls from poor families. Jacinta Ndambiri (above left) is Kabare’s principal and has been with this school for more than fifteen years. She is an exceptionally inspiring and motivated woman, and she has helped to make Kabare the best-performing and most prestigious school in its district. Kabare is especially well known for providing a good scientific education.

Charity, pictured right, is a Kabare graduate. She is the last-born of five children from a family of subsistence farmers. She wants to be an accountant, enjoys playing badminton, and like many of our Kenyan girls admires very greatly the prominent Kenyan politician Martha Karua.

Grace, pictured at the bottom right with her sister and her sister-in-law (with baby), is a recent graduate of Kabare. As a student, she was active in the Christian Union and was selected as a prefect.  We are all very proud of her achievements. Grace tells us:

In the future, I would like to work as an electrical engineer. I am not ready to let my unfortunate background prevent me from achieving great things in the world. Few people in my village value education but I have learned to be persistent and will not give up.”