(Washington, DC) April 24, 2009 - School Ventures is proud to release a video highlighting the student-led social business projects at Rosebella Prepatory Center (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr40S4ZHgnY), located in the low-income, urban community around Nairobi, Kenya. The 6-minute video tells the story of Rosebella students as they run social business projects and use the profits to pay tuition and supplies for the most disadvantaged students.

In addition to their ongoing soap, shampoo and bead making projects, Rosebella students used money raised from the School Ventures umake100 campaign to fund the "Learning Lights" pilot project. With the help of School Ventures, elementary students at Rosebella responded to the lack of reliable electricity or lighting sources by starting a social business to sell affordable solar-powered lamps into the community. They used their proceeds to pay school fees for orphans and extremely poor children.

Rosebella Prepatory Center is one of many affordable private schools that serve over 8,000 children in the low income, urban communities around Nairobi, Kenya. School Ventures is working with these schools to support businesses launched by students to solve local social and environmental problems.