Thanks for your help!

Over the course of the past year, we have sold t-shirts, necklaces, sock creatures, paintings, and other crafts to raise money for Kibera Penda Project. Since we get sponsors for all of our high school students, we usually use the money raised towards needs at New Hope Primary school which is the school we work with in Kibera.

About a week ago I met with the deputy principal at New Hope and asked about the needs. We don't like to cover primary student's school fees ahead of time because parents would begin to not try to pay school fees because they would just expect us to cover them. However, Francesca, the principal gave me a list of student who had not fully covered their fees from January to June. The school has a huge heart for these kids and doesn't want to kick them out of school. They also know the family situations of many students and their are many orphans living with older siblings. however, what this causes is teacher salaries not being paid in full and other supplies the school needs are unable to be met.

Before coming, Ava had calculated how much we had raised on selling merchandise and crafts and the total was really close to 3,000 dollars. Francesca handed me the list of missing fees In Kenya shillings. That night I converted the total to dollars and Guess what it converted to ...$3013! Wow! Ridiculously cool!

Soooooooo... If you have bought a t-shirt, sock creature, painting, magazine bead necklace, even a magnet from us in the past year THANK YOU for helping partially sponsor 144 primary school students!!!!