Child Sponsorship

Child sponsership

Blair in Kenya sponsors over 250 Kenyan children for their educational needs, including tuition, school uniform, shoes, books, and other school supplies, plus providing a nutritious lunch every day during the school year. Without our support, these students would not be able to attend school, which we feel is a basic human right. Further, we believe that it is not reasonable to expect a child to succeed in school without food, and we have therefore arranged so that the parents of the sponsored children volunteer on a rotating basis to cook, serve, and clean up for the children. Kenyan schools do not provide lunch and the students are sent home during this time, although for these children, there is no food at home either. We even allow these children to take some of the food with them so that they can feed their siblings.

We have selected students who both wouldn't otherwise be able to go to school -- the poorest of the poor -- but also those that we think can take advantage of this opportunity. All of these students come from homes that do not normally have enough to eat, and, in many cases, the lunch we provide is their most nutritious meal of the day. Report cards are monitored and the families must agree to support their child to make sure that they take advantage of this opportunity. The goal is to create future leaders in the community so that we are no longer needed.

Of course, this project is expensive and we are always looking for help with the sponsoring of children. The annual cost per student is $200, which includes all of the above services. Two additional benefits -- (1) your donation is tax deductible and (2) All overhead and administrative costs have been paid so that 100% of your donation goes to supporting your child.

Where does your $200 go? School fees are a bit over $3/month (depending on exchange rates) x 10 months = $30/year. We purchase books, school uniform, pens/pencils, and school shoes for each of our students -- that's another $20 a year. The remaining $150 purchases lunch on every day that the student goes to school -- nearly 250 meals (and you should really double that number because we allow each child to take home a bag of food for their siblings).

So, for 55 cents per day, you can change a life. Here are some of the children that we sponsor. Contact us for more information. Please consider paying on a monthly plan as this really helps us to manage our costs and budget.