December 2018

At the Kakenya Center for Excellence primary boarding school (KCE I), we start enrolling students when they reach fourth grade. In the communities where we work, it is at this age that girls often undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) in preparation for early marriage. By bringing girls into our fourth grade class each year, we’ve […]

When Noolkiramat received the news that her granddaughter, Neema, had passed the enrollment interview and would be admitted into the fourth grade class at KCE I in 2017, she says she was over the moon. “I did not go to school, but having lived this long, I have come to know that education is important