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Abigael Siantei

Abigael is a sixteen year old girl who came to MGEF in 2014. She is the second youngest of six children born in a traditional Maasai family. Her father is polygamous, and her birth mother is the second of three wives. Her father is illiterate and blind, making him unable to work. Her mother, also illiterate, tends to the family’s daily needs and chores. Abigael's older sister was circumcised and married off to an older man in a remote village. Only two months into the marriage, she ran away and remains in hiding. Abigael’s brother did not want the same fate for Abigael because she was a very bright girl and loved school. He believes strongly in the importance of an education, but he could not raise the funds for her to go to boarding school. MGEF accepted Abigael into the scholarship program in 2014, and now, in 2018, she is still thriving and has started secondary school.

Annah Naserian

Annah comes from a family of nine children, five girls and four boys.  Her father had high hopes for Anna because she did very well in school.  Annah came home one day from school to find her mother had left her father with all nine children.  Her youngest brother was only 11 months old.  Annah's older brother gave up school to take care of the youngest sibling.  Annah stayed in school until Form 2 (10th grade), to which she was sent home due to lack of school fees.  She ran away at this point, because her father had become very bitter and mean to the children.  She married in order to survive and had a child.  Her new husband was an alcoholic and was an abusive man.  She ran back home and asked her father for forgiveness. He would take her in, but would not help her with school fees.  She came to MGEF and filled out an application.  She was accepted and is happy to be able to continue her education.

Anne Salaine

Anne is a 13-year-old girl who comes from a family of 6 children. The entire family relies on her mothers casual labor. Her father is a violent alcoholic and torments the family when he is home. Fortunately, he does not often come home. Her mother works casual jobs which are sometimes includes manual labor traditionally done by men, but she is desperate for money to support her children and to send them to school. The local school that is affordable is a long walk for Anne. It is in a very rural area which is full of elephants. Therefore, it was a dangerous trip for her. Anne is a smart little girl who loves school. Her mother approached one of our local board members who helped her fill out an application. Anne was accepted into the scholarship program in January 2025. She is happy to be able to go to a boarding school where she doesn't have to worry about getting to school safely.

Beatrice Nasalula

Beatrice Nasalula is one of three sisters who together came to MGEF in need of sponsorship. With nine children in total, her family could hardly pay for basic necessities, much less school fees. She and her sisters attended school only when they could piece together enough money to pay for a few months at a time. Beatrice yearned to return to secondary school full-time in order to concentrate on her studies uninterrupted. An MGEF scholarship has now enabled Beatrice to stay in school and pursue her dream career in Community Development. She is currently enrolled at St. Clare Girls Secondary School.

Blessing Namayiana

Blessing is an 11 year old girl who comes from a family of three children. Her family is very poor. Her father is a motorbike taxi driver and her mother is a housewife. The family cannot make ends meet, but they try very hard to send the children to school. They know that an education is the way out of poverty. Blessing is a smart girl, but she is getting behind because she is constantly being sent home due to lack of school fees. A local school contacted the MGEF office about this bright little girl. An MGEF staff member went to the school and helped Blessing fill out an application. She was accepted into the Scholarship program in January 2025. Now she will be able to concentrate on her studies and not have to worry about being sent home.

Blessing Senewa

Blessing is a fourteen-year-old girl who comes from a family of ten children. Four of the children are her siblings and five are her cousins. After her uncle's death, her father took on the responsibility of his brother's family. He also supports his brother's wife, who has HIV and costly medical bills. Neither he nor his wife work, they survive by selling a cow or goat. Their livestock was diminishing and neither Blessing nor her six-year-old brother were able to report to school due to lack of school fees. A local MGEF board member was contacted about Blessing's situation. She helped Blessing fill out an application. Blessing was accepted into the MGEF Scholarship program in January 025. She is very happy to be able to return to school this year.

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Damaris Lato

Damaris is a ten-year-old girl who comes from a polygamist family of nine children. Her father had two wives. Damaris's mother had five children and the second wife had four. Damaris's father died before she was born. She is the youngest child in the family. The two mothers do casual jobs such as fetching firewood and washing clothes for people. The mothers have held fundraisers to help them assist with school fees, but they are no longer successful with this. Damaris's teacher has done a lot to help her stay in school, such as providing her with a uniform. A local MGEF board member was contacted, and she met with Damaris's family to help them fill out her application. Damaris was accepted into the MGEF Scholarship program in January 2025. She is very excited about returning to school without fear of being sent home due to lack of school fees.

Dapash Tipape

Dapash is one of nine children in an impoverished and struggling household. With only three goats and a father who is unemployed, the children regularly spend their school breaks working to make ends meet. Dapash’s mother collects firewood daily, carrying it 30 kilometers to and from Tanzania to sell. The little money she earns is used to buy food and can provide little else. In Form 2, Dapash’s education was threatened by her family's poverty. In January of 2016, MGEF granted Dapash a scholarship to continue her education.

Doris Melente

Doris is a 12-year-old girl with three siblings. Her father is deceased, and her mother supports the family by selling coal. Her two older sisters dropped out of school and were married off at an early age. Her brother suffers from epilepsy and is disabled. Her mother has struggled to keep Doris in school, but it is too much for her. She is often sent home due to lack of school fees. Doris loves school and dreams of becoming a police woman. Her mother contacted the local MGEF board member, who came and helped them fill out an application. Doris was accepted into the MGEF Scholarship program in January 2025. She is so proud to be the only child in the family to be able to receive an education.

Esther Nosim

Esther is an 11-year-old girl who lives with her great aunt. Her mother became pregnant while in secondary school. She gave her baby to her mother to watch while she went back to school. Esther's grandmother was unable to care for her so she gave her to her sister. Esther's great aunt and her husband are old and have two other grandchildren who live with them and depend on them. Esther's mother graduated from high school but has not taken Esther back and has decided to live her own life without her daughter. Esther loves school and her great aunt is very supportive of education. Her great aunt looked for a way to keep Esther in school, and she learned of MGEF. She brought Esther to a local board member who helped her fill out an application. Esther is so happy to be able to return to school with no worries about being sent home due to lack of school fees.

Esther Topisia

Esther was born in 1999 and is the oldest of six children. Her family is extremely poor and depends on relatives to survive. Esther was brought to MGEF's attention by a local area chief and now attends Moi Girls Secondary School under an MGEF scholarship.

Evaline Nanana

Evaline’s father married 3 wives and supports 22 children. In primary school, Evaline was a hardworking student who performed well academically. Because her family was unable to pay for secondary school, Evaline was forced to leave school in 2014. In 2016, after her father sold the family’s only cow to pay for school fees, Evaline managed to join the Olooseos Secondary School to continue her studies. However, due to her family’s poverty, Evaline was in danger of marriage. After joining MGEF, Evaline is now getting the education she and her family worked so hard for.

Faith Mpaayo

Faith is a 17 year old girl, who comes from polygamist family of three wives and 13 children with seven brothers and five sisters. Faith is the only girl to have gone to school out of all of her sisters with only one brother managed to make it through primary school. Three of the five sisters have been married off. Faith’s father is unemployed and her mother works odd jobs when they are available. Faith’s mother has tried very hard to put her to school because she believes in Faith and thinks she will be the person to bring the family out of severe poverty. Faith graduated from primary school in 2014, and her mother worked very hard to put her through form one of secondary school. She had to drop out of school after form one because her mother could not find the tuition money for form two. Faith went home to a very harsh life of severe poverty, where the family often went through several days without food.

Faith Nasarian

Faith belongs to a family of nine children and neither of her parents are employed. Two of her sisters dropped out of school due to pregnancy and were married off immediately. Another sister dropped out of school because her family could not afford to pay the fees. Facing a scarcity of food for her and her siblings, Faith ran away from home. She found a place to stay at the Kajiado Adventist School and joined MGEF as a sponsored student. Faith dreams of becoming a nurse.

Faith Sekeyian

With an MGEF scholarship, Faith began Class 5 at AIC Primary School and is now in Class 8. She hopes to become a teacher when she completes her schooling.

Flora Nanoyia

Flora is a 14 year old girl who comes from a very poor family. Her father is deceased and her mother does odd jobs to put bread on the table. They have no livestock except a couple of calves. Her uncles decided to marry Flora in order to receive some cows, but her mother brought her to a local rescue center that is also a school. The rescue centers can only keep these girl for so long and Flora eventually reached her limit. She was to be sent home, but her teacher pleaded with the school authorities to keep her in school.

Grace Sinet

Grace is a ten-year-old girl with 5 siblings. Both of her parents are illiterate, and they struggle daily to put food on the table. They sell coal for a living at a local marketplace. The family has three goats and no cows. Only one of the goats is able to produce milk for the family. All of their school-aged children are in and out of school due to lack of school fees. Grace was unable to attend classes because her parents were unable to pay for her books. She didn't receive her report card last year because she did not have fees to pay for the assessment book. Grace loves school but is behind because she doesn't have the materials needed to do her work, and is constantly being sent home due to lack of school fees. The local MGEF board member was informed of Grace's situation. She met with the family and helped them fill out an application. Grace was accepted into the MGEG Scholarship program in January 2025. She is very excited to be able to go to school with all of her books and supplies to help her succeed.

Hillary Naana

Hillary was left in the care of her grandparents when she was a year old. Hillary continues to live with her grandparents, who are very poor and still have their own children at home to care for. In January of 2011, when Hillary's grandparents could no longer afford to send her to school, MGEF began supporting Hillary's education.

Hope M

Hope is an 11-year-old girl who lives with her grandparents. Her mother was married off after giving birth to Hope. The husband did not want Hope, so she was given to her mother's parents. Her grandfather does not believe in educating girls and wants to marry Hope to an older man for a dowry. Her grandmother is old and very ill and is unable to help Hope. Hope is a very bright girl who dreams of becoming a police woman to help her community. She loves school. A local MGEF board member was told of Hope's situation, so she visited her home. Her grandparents agreed to fill out an application. Hope was accepted into the scholarship program in January 2025. She is very happy to be in school with a bright future ahead of her.

Ivy Sankale

Ivy is a 19 year old girl who comes from a small family consisting of a single mother and one sister.  She has never known her father.  Her mother has struggled to keep her girls fed and sheltered by washing clothes.  Often Ivy and her sister went to bed hungry.  

Jackline Naisoi

Jackline’s father has four wives and many children. He is blind, limiting his capacity to work, and completely neglects Jackline’s mother and her children. Jackline's mother is uneducated and does not earn a steady income, making it very difficult to support her children. When Kenya imposed new regulations for attendance at school, Jackline and her sisters were given the opportunity to receive an education. However, the family’s extreme poverty made it impossible to pay for school. After receieving an MGEF scholarship in 2014, Jackline is continuing her studies. She hopes to use her education to lift her family out of poverty.

Joynice Nateyian

Joynice’s father is married to 3 wives and has 21 children. Joynice's father has already forced five of her sisters to drop out of school and get married. Despite doing well on her exams, Joynice faced the same fate. In June 2016, Joynice joined MGEF as a sponsored student and is now continuing her education without fear of an early marriage.

Joyline Koira

Joyline is an only child. Her mother became pregnant in Form 3 (11th grade). She had hoped to return to school, but she was not able to. The father disappeared and is of no financial help at all. Joyline and her mother live at her grandfather's small home along with her mother's three siblings. The entire household depends on Joyline's mother to support them with her house keeping job. Joyline's mother cannot afford to send her to school. She was very determined to find a way to send Joyline to school. She discovers MHGEF and immediately finds the local board member. Joyline was accepted into the scholarship program in January 2025. She is a very happy little girl who loves school.

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Lilian Mereina

Lilian is from the Mashuru Division of Kajiado. She was required to stay home for a few years and work to support the family, as her parents did not earn enough money on their own selling charcoal. Lilian is committed to finishing her secondary school education and dreams of attending university.

Lilian Mosoni

Lilian comes from a family of seven children. Her father is deceased. Her fathers extended family has not helped Lilian's mother support herself or the children. She does casual labor to put food on the table. She has held fundraisers to pay for the education of her school aged children. The community has helped, but they are no longer able to assist the family. An MGEF facilitator, at one of our Life Skills Workshops, was approached by a teacher in regards to Lilian. They recommended her for a scholarship because they felt she was very bright and was not going to be able to continue due to lack of school fees. The facilitator contacted the local MGEF board member who visited Lilian and helped her fill out an application. She was accepted in January of 2025. Lilian is very excited to be able to continue her education.

Mary Nolari

Mary is an eighteen year old girl, who lives with her single mom and 2 siblings. Mary's life has been one of violence as her father is an abusive man with a drug and alcohol problem. When Mary was a young girl, her mother left her father because of the violence but later returned to him. Finally, she left him for good when he threatened to kill her with a knife. Her mother does odd jobs to support the three children. She has tried to keep them in school but most of the time is unable to pay the school fees.

Nayieyo Toris

Nayieyo is a 14 year old girl who comes from a polygamist family. Her father has two wives and she has six siblings and five step siblings. Neither the father nor the wives are employed and the family only has six cows and six goats. Nayieyo's 11 year old brother has multiple disabilities, which is a hardship for the family. Nayieyo's mother believes in education and has managed to find well wisher to help her pay school fees so her children could attend primary school. Unfortunately, the family cannot afford secondary school for Nayieyo even though she did very well in primary school and scored very high on the Kenya Certificate of Primary Exam (KCPE).

Neema Sintaroi

Neema is an 11-year-old girl who comes from a family of five children. Her family is very poor. Her father has a low-paying seasonal job of sand harvesting and her mother is unemployed. Both of her parents are illiterate. Neema's older sisters had to drop out of school due to lack of school fees. A teacher assisted Neema to stay in school for 2024 because she is a smart girl. Neema was brought to the attention of a local MGEF board member who brought her to the office to fill out an application. Neema was accepted into the scholarship program in January 2025. She dreams of becoming a teacher. Now her dream can come true.

Seleyian Parkuyiare

Seleyian is a fourteen year old girl whose brother contacted MGEF in the spring of 2017. Her brother was desperate to keep his little sister in school. He had been supporting her education but had lost his job and was no longer able to send her to school. He was afraid his sister would be married off. In his search for help, he found us on Facebook and messaged us. He was told to contact the MGEF Kajiado office, which he immediately did. He came in and filled out the application and continued to be in contact for the results. Seleyian is a very bright girl and does very well in school. Her brother’s persistence impressed us all, as did Seleyian, when he brought her to the 2017 Mentoring workshop that was held at the beginning of December. We are happy to welcome Seleyian into the MGEF Scholarship Program and are also very pleased to have her brother as an advocate for girl’s education in the Maasai community. She began grade 7 in January 2018.

Sereya S

Sereya is a 15-year-old girl who comes from a polygamist family with 16 children. Her father has two wives. Sereya's mother is the second wife and has seven children. The first wife has nine children. All the parents are illiterate and work casual jobs when they are available. They struggle to put their school-aged children to school. Sereya is very humble and loves school. She is constantly being sent home due to lack of school fees. The local MGEF board member was contacted and visited Sereya and helped her fill out an application. Sereya was accepted to the MGEF Scholarship program in January 2025. She is very happy to be able to go to school and concentrate on her studies instead of worrying about being sent home due to lack of school fees.

Sylvia Malayian

Sylvia is a 17 year old girl, who comes from a polygamists family of 11 children. Her father is deceased and both wives struggle to survive. Sylvia's mother is illiterate and unemployed. The family relies on neighbors and well wishers for food. She sold firewood to Sylvia's primary school in order to pay her school fees. Secondary school was a different story. Unable to raise the school fees, it was three months into the school year, when finally her church held a fundraiser to get her back into school. She attends a local day school which is a 6 kilometer walk one way, which is dangerous for a girl her age. Sylvia is a hard worker and loves school. The local MGEF board member was contacted and she met with Sylvia and helped her fill out an application. Sylvia is so happy to be able to go to a good boarding school without the long walk and without the fear of being sent home due to lack of school fees.

Vivian Lenkoilelio

Vivian is a 14 year old girl who comes from polygamy family with nine children. Vivian's parents are not employed and cannot read or write. They rely on a few goats and sheep to survive. The local chief found Vivian herding the goats and asked her why she was not in school. He spoke with her parents and found out she did very well in primary school, but that they could not afford to send her to secondary school. Vivian is a very smart girl and the chief felt she should be in school. The chief brought her to a board member, who brought her into the office to fill out an application. Vivian was accepted into MGEF's Scholarship Program January 2019. She now goes to school without fear of being sent home due to lack of school fees.

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