Most schools in Kenya require fees to be paid either as tuition, lunch levy, exam fees, etc. Students that are not able to pay the fees are usually sent away from school until the fee is paid. As you will read in Cate Odo’s testimonial, her first year of high school (grade 9) was mostly spent at home for lack of school fees. Being sent home regularly because of unpaid fees not only interferes with their studies but also results in low self esteem for many of these students. Some of them give up altogether and drop out of school, leaving them vulnerable to early marriage and/or pregnancy for the girls and few options for earning a decent, self-sustaining and reliable income. At best they end up as manual laborers with inconsistent and low income, (typically less than $3 a day) thus continuing the cycle of poverty if there’s no intervention. Our mission is to help break this cycle by paying school fees and any other levies that are required to keep the students in school.