Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

About 15 underprivileged African youth and children shall be educated through Malezi School and receive sport training in leadership, life skills, health & environment for awareness at Sadili Oval for up to four years each.

Project Message

I went through the academy school through scholarship & sports. I completed high school and university and I now work as an accounts assistant in a PR agency. I now help others at Sadili to succeed.
- Arianne Otiende Okong'o, Beneficiary of the program

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Dr. Elizabeth Odera,
Director
Off Kitengela Road
Langata
Nairobi, Nairobi 51736-00200
Kenya
+254-20-609046
Email:

Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organization

Learn more about Sadili Oval and the project team.

Sadili Oval's Current Projects on GlobalGiving

Train 3000 Kibera youth in sport & life skills

Provide Kibera Slum Children with 1500 Solar Lamps

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Kenya and can also be found under Sport.

For more information about Kenya, read the Human Development Report on Kenya or the Wikipedia entry for Kenya.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on August 06, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on September 27, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

MEET RICHARD OOKO

By DR. LIZ ODERA - DIRECTOR, August 06, 2008 03:47 PM

Date of birth: 30-3-1992

Every morning these days, Richard leaves his family’s home in the sprawling Kibera slums very early to walk across Nairobi River to his new school. Once in the compound, you will often find him standing there, admiring the school, and you can almost hear him say “I can’t believe that I can actually enter such a school!”

Richard is the first recipient of 2008 Sports and Education Fund. Richard’s family moved to Kibera from Kano (rural area to the west of Kenya) in search of survival following constant flooding of their small farm, and inability to grow any crops. He was three years old. He is the second born of four children; his older brother, Samuel Otieno is sponsored through high school by a doctor in whose clinic, Robert’s father, Charles Onyango, works as a messenger/clerk. His mother is a house help in a lower middle class estate in South C area in Nairobi, where she earns and average of US$ 36(20 pounds) a month from washing clothes and cleaning the home.

Robert’s family would like him to get a good education, but can only afford a non-formal school within the slum, with untrained volunteer staff, and where the school fees (without books or stationary) charged is US$1.4. and the pass rate in the national exams is hardly 15%. Richard is a very happy recipient of the education fund.


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