Sponsorship Fundraising Categories
WATER TANKS
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Water scarcity is a major problem throughout Africa. Consequently, in the majority of schools, children are required to bring water for drinking and cooking. Often this water is contaminated due to outbreaks of waterborne diseases such as typhoid, amoebic dysentery, cholera, etc.
Construction of water tanks in schools to harvest rainwater via roof catchments is a panacea to these problems. A $2,200 donation provides a 10,000 liter water tank, roof catchments and materials to encase it.
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RENOVATION
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Most Kenyan schools are in serious disrepair, with dusty floors, unplastered classrooms and cracked walls, and a lack of sealed windows and doors. Many buildings also have leaky, rusty roofs that are easily destroyed by strong winds. This type of learning environment increases susceptibility to illness, affects school absentee rates and prevents uninterrupted, fluid education.
Donations to the Renovation Fund provides schools with building materials to help secure existing structures, install doors and windows, and purchase paint to enhance natural lighting (most buildings lack electricity). A $200 donation can seal a floor with cement. $1,400 will completely makeover a classroom. Any amount given to the donation fund collectively goes towards renovating classrooms as well as for special projects including the construction of solar-powered learning resource centers, new kitchens and administration blocks for teachers.
FENCING
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Most schools in Kenya lack security and therefore, require a way to protect their compounds from intruders. Some schools also have tree planting projects and farms within their compounds that need protection from stray animals. In the absence of permanent fencing, children are often required to bring thorny bushes to school that act as temporary barriers. Besides being hazardous, this practice is tantamount to child labor, which is prohibited under the UN Charter on Children’s Rights.
Funds for fencing construction help free schoolchildren from this unlawful practice and provide schools with needed security for their borders. $1,500 purchases a metal gate, construction materials and enough barbed wire to fence a school’s compound.
SUPPLIES
Most schools participating in Kenya Connect programs lack essential school supplies (e.g., desks, chairs and tables). Unfortunately, it is common to find four children sharing a single desk and teachers standing all day during lessons due to a dearth of these basic supplies.
By and large, having these basic needs met can help improve academic standards and teacher efficiency. A $700 donation can buy enough timber and nails for ten desks and a chair and table for a teacher or meet all the needs of a single classroom.
SPORTING EQUIPMENT
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Participation in sporting activities has been shown to help development and nurture cooperation and team-building skills. In Kenya, most schools lack even the most basic of equipment, and even balls are constructed from plastic bags bound together with twine.
Overall, provision of sporting equipment is a necessary ingredient that helps schoolchildren to enjoy their lives in school as children. A $300 donation purchases a supply of new sporting goods for a single school.
SCHOOL UNIFORMS
The HIV/AIDS epidemic has had a significant impact on African communities -- not only increasing the number of orphaned children -- but also, impacting appointed guardians and caregivers who are often unable to afford their guards’ most basic needs.
Providing a new school uniform to orphaned schoolchildren provides them with a sense of dignity and frees them from embarrassment and peer pressure. A $20 donation can gift an orphaned or needy child with a new uniform. Each donor will receive a photo and a personal thank you letter from the recipient child.
