Rafiki Thabo is supporting increasing numbers of students in Kenya at both secondary and further education levels. The students are training in all kinds of fields – medicine, business, special needs teaching to name a few – and at some of the most recognised institutions including Jomo Kenyatta and Egerton Universities.
The goal is that after achieving professional qualifications, students supported by the Rafiki Thabo will then be able to support themselves and their families. We see that this is already happening with the first generation of graduates and the more we can support, the greater the long term impact will be. Without support, all of our students would have had to drop out of education – a year’s fees at university costs a little over one thousand pounds, a huge financial burden to a family, if indeed the student has one.
One student Stephen Okumu, a BSc Information Science student at Moi University and an amateur poet going by the name of ‘The African gazzelle’ talks of what a real difference funding by the Rafiki Thabo makes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELCvc-vDzjY.
