The Mbaitu inc. Scholarship and Education Fund is a program that seeks to impact children and youth to realize their full potential. Mbaitu scholarship fund provides comprehensive secondary school scholarships to academically promising, yet financially disadvantaged youth from the South Eastern Kenya Counties, namely Machakos, Kitui and Makueni. Since inception in 2020 the fund has enabled the youth from the selected counties to join secondary school. The scholarship covers school fees, transport, books, pocket money, mentoring, psychosocial support, and leadership development. Mbaitu recently partnered with the Higher Education Loan Board to ensure that the Mbaitu inc. sponsored students can access college education by receiving loans which they can repay after they start working. This is because Mbaitu inc. realizes that education is only useful if one specializes in a career. HELB has also further funded the scholarship drive in the past. Other sponsors and partners include Certified homes, BAMA diaspora, Optiven, L.I.F.E, African touch Adventure to mention but a few.
Kenya has signed the international convention on the rights of the child and has proceeded to domesticate the said convention by enacting the Children’s Act. Under the said Convention, it is duty of the government to enable all children obtain basic education and Kenya has done this provision of free and compulsory primary education. Under Kenya Laws, basic education is offered tuition free for the first 8 years and subsequently highly subsided at secondary school level. It is therefore the case to find a lot of very bright but needy children who have spent 8 years of basic education unable to proceed to secondary school for want of school fees and other necessities. Mbaitu inc, through the scholarship fund hopes to bridge this gap and facilitate through scholarship bright but needy children from the three counties to access public secondary school. Mbaitu inc believes that education is a social equalizer and if children from poor families are facilitated to access secondary school education, then they are better placed to later join the job market and lift themselves and their families from poverty.
Mbaitu Inc. identifies academically promising, yet financially disadvantaged youth from the South eastern Counties, namely Machakos, Kitui and Makueni. These are suggested by members or identified during our seed and food drive meetings.
| Step 1 | Members suggest students in need of school fees in the three counties (Makueni, Kitui, & Machakos). |
| Step 2 | The committee reaches out to parents of the students for needs assessment and students performance in the past. |
| Step 3 | Identifying needy families that will benefit from the school fund drive. Share list of identified families with the committee for planning and approval |
| Step 4 | Connecting with schools for school fees and payment. |
| Step 5 | Funds drive. Sponsors who would like to be a part of this drive are also invited to sponsor and partner. Mbaitu inc. in turn will market their products through out the fund drive and execution period. |
| Step 6 | School fees- Paid per semester directly to the school once a scholarship is awarded, sustained based on the students performance |
| Step 7 | Follow up and report |
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