Tuition fees for secondary schools are now paid for by the Kenyan government. However, this only covers the teachers and does not pay for the other costs of running the school. It also does not cover teaching materials, school activities or feeding the children. 

Fees are required up front at the start of each term. This makes it even more difficult for families to fund the education. Sometimes parents can pay part of the fees for secondary education, but most will need some help. Some have no personal financial resources at all.

This means that families must decide which of their children to educate, when and how often. 

Friends of Namuncha raises money to help support parents to pay for their children’s education. 

You can help support their education by:

• making a donation, however small, to the community sponsorship committee fund
• sponsoring a student’s secondary school education, currently £160 per year for at least four years 

The Peace School board of management for the school and the community meet regularly to decide how to distribute the money donated or raised for bursaries. 

The committee makes its decision based on their own set of criteria. Pupils must have reached the national educational standard to be eligible for a bursary. The community leaders have accepted that they need to educate their girls to see real positive changes in their community.

As the secondary school becomes more established, the fees will be used to cover maintenance of the school and to fund local, vulnerable children. In the meantime, donations to the bursary fund are needed to ensure girls and vulnerable children are given their chance to complete their secondary education. 

Many sponsored children have gone on to attend colleges and have returned to their community to teach and support the next generation.  See the College Start Up Grants page to see how we are helping some students to move into higher education.

Three students who we have over the years sponsored returned to Namuncha, One a Clinical Officer in her last year helped in the clinics with ill patients and health promotion.  Another on a community development programme was the community lead for getting chimneys built to ventilate the Manyattas.  A third helped with the distribution of revision aids to the class 8 and grade 4 students.  This is the investment starting to pay