Zoe Blossom

Last week, Kakenya’s Dream went to the U.S. Capitol to show support for the Keeping Girls in School Act (KGISA), a bipartisan bill emphasizing the importance of girls’ education around the world and calling on the U.S. government’s foreign assistance to address the barriers that keep more than 130 million girls out of school globally. […]

Today is International Day of the African Child (IDAC)! Celebrated around the world, IDAC honors African children’s dignity and rights while focusing on access to high-quality education. IDAC commemorates the children in Soweto, South Africa who marched for access to quality education in 1976. We spent this past week reflecting on the meaning of today

In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, Kakenya’s Dream sat down to chat with Mr. Victor Nyambok, one of our stellar new teachers at our second school, KCE II. Mr. Nyambok joined KCE II when the campus first opened in May of 2018. Kakenya’s Dream: Can you tell us a bit about your background and what

In communities like Enoosaen, storybooks are often considered a luxury. There are no local bookstores or public libraries, and most schools lack the resources to provide students with a variety of reading material. As a result, children do not develop the habit of reading for pleasure. At Kakenya’s Dream, we want to nurture a lifelong

For an exciting second year in a row, KCE I students were given the opportunity to visit the United States! On February 9, eighth-graders Abbigael, Caroline, Moreene, and Sylvia left Kenya for the very first time to take part in the trip of a lifetime. New York City Thanks to our wonderful partners at Whitby

14 year-old Mary was KCE I’s top scoring student in the recent national primary school exam. As a result, Mary secured placement at a prestigious national high school where she reports this week to begin her high school education. Mary’s family lives nearly 50 miles from KCE I’s campus, in one of the most remote

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

This year, KCE I’s pioneer class of students graduated high school and left for colleges around the world! We wanted to share what this incredible journey has been like through the eyes of one of these students.  Sharon, pictured below, is one of three of our girls who received scholarships to attend universities in Australia.