1 Extra classroom for the Shepherd School in Kenya

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EDUCATION FOR ANOTHER 100 CHILDREN IN THE SHEPHERD SCHOOL!

After the successful start for the first 100 children, 100 new children are eagerly waiting to go to school. We make this possible by building an extra classroom!

Dear Friends,

My name is Augustine Lenamoe. I am from Marsabit in the North of Kenya. I am working on EDUCATION, EMPOWERMENT and WATER SOLUTIONS. To give my local community the skills and power to work on a better life and future for all.

Since 2014, I have been participating in the international ONE WORLD Citizens (OWC) community, in which we share our ideas for change with young people from 16 countries and help each other to develop our ideas into local start-ups. OWC supports us as young social entrepreneurs bottom-up, such as with GoFundMe campaigns like mine, to organize start-up capital.

In Marsabit, most of us are living as Nomads. This means that we are moving around day by day with cattle. The milk and skins of the cattle is the source of income. During the drought seasons (which is most of the year) we have to go very far to find water and green pastures. By this way of living, 80% of our people had no access to education yet. This is what I am changing with youngsters and women from Marsabit!

ACCESS TO EDUCATION IN THE SHEPHERD SCHOOL with no one left behind.

That's why we as young people from Marsabit started our own shepherd school, built in the UBUNTU community center that we founded with the help of the elders of our community. By this school we were able to start education ourselves!

In the first round we decided to start with education for young women, because they are the moms of the youth that we wanted to educate in the Shepherd school too.

By education on Maths and English, the women were able to earn more money while selling the milk and skins on the market! Amazing that this could be done already after the first education course in our own Shepherd School.

After this success we started the 2nd round: 100 children came to school!

Now, after the successful start of education of the first 100 pupils, another 100 children are eagerly waiting to go to school. We make this possible by building an extra classroom!

For this we need your help!

1 EXTRA CLASSROOM, 50 TABLES & 2 BLACK BOARDS