Zulekha Noor
Age: 16 years
Sex: Female
Class: Form 2

Zulekha Noor is a girl of sixteen years. She is a hard working girl who comes from a broken family. She lives with her mother and four siblings. The mother is uneducated and does not work. Life in her home is a constant social struggle. However, in spite of all the challenges, she manages to do well academically and that is why CESF was drawn to her plight.

Zulekha does well in humanities and mathematics. She aspires towards business administration and management career. We might be breeding a future CEO.

Write Mwavita
Age: 14 years
Sex: Male
Class: Form 1

Write Mwavita comes from a destitute family. His father has died and he lives with his mother who has breast cancer that has spread. The boy is an academic potential. He is well disciplined and is determined against all odds. He has three siblings. His mother was laid off from her subordinate position at a government department because of her illness.

CESF is his dream come true and we are happy to come to his aid as long as he keeps his grades high. In this way we are motivating him to aspire higher than he dared to.

Jamila Yusuf Adam.
Sex: Female
Age: 14
Class: Form 1

Jamila and her six siblings are dependent on a single mother who is unemployed. She scored highly and was granted a scholarship to enable her achieve her ambition.It is said that if you educate a boy, you have educated an individual but if you educate a girl you have educated a community. For this reason helping Jamila is like helping the community since she comes from Lamu where women are rarely educated. They are only reared to be breeders.

We at CESF realize that in educating Jamila, we are setting a foundation for the next generation in Lamu. We hope the our spirit shall continue to live on in girls like Jamila.Jamila surely combines beauty and brains.

Jonathan Konde
Age: 18 years
Sex: Male
Class: Form 3

Jonathan Konde was CESF’s first successful applicant. He is a highly self motivated boy who comes from a family so poor they can go for days without a meal. He lives in a shack fit to be occupied by animals. But he is focused and his determination is sure going to take him places. Jonathan gives one the feeling that they have met another Ben Carson.Jonathan is aspiring to be a doctor and with his high grades in science oriented subjects, his dream is going to come true for him some day.

His academic performance is very impressive in spite of his circumstances. In the last two years of his school education, he has been in and out of class because of fees. However despite these challenges he has managed to maintain a B minus throughout. This is outstanding and it leaves no question about the ability of this boy. CESF wants to be a part of his success story. We want to nurture his ability and escalate his dreams to whatever heights.

Jonathan is the essence of humbleness. The boy is so disciplined it makes one forget that he is a teenager. He is humble, soft spoken and down to earth. These are truly the signs of a great leader. CESF is truly proud to have had the chance to play a part in molding this child’s academic and overall future.

Mbuya Victor Ochieng
Age: 14 years
Sex: Male
Class: Form 1

Victor is an HIV/AIDS orphan. He is the first born of five children.

All his siblings were taken in by relatives after his parents passed on. He was taken in by an aunt who is not able to pay for his high school fees. After primary education his only option was to join manual labour since he could not afford even low cost secondary school. He saw the CESF poster and applied. He was successful and was granted a scholarship for 2010.Further assistance will depend on how much effort he puts in his studies. CESF has great hopes for him.

Okiri Emmanuel John                    
Sex: Male   
Age: 13 years        
KCPE MARKS: 406 out of 500 (2009)

Emmanuel qualified as per CESF selection criteria as a destitute child. As per the child’s own handwritten application letter the father has been unemployed since 2007 and the mother is a nursery schoolteacher whose meagre income sustains them with food. The CESF official visited the home and found the family wanting. The coordinator spoke to the father at length and discovered that he had exhausted all means of taking the child to school. It was a sad case since the boy had excelled in his examination scoring 406 out of 500 marks. Emmanuel is well disciplined and he is a responsible boy for his age.

The coordinator visited his previous school Ganjoni Primary School and talked to his teachers who pleaded for his case saying that Emmanuel was among their very best students and should be encouraged in pursuing his academic ambitions. The teachers at the previous primary school attended by Emmanuel further encouraged the coordinator by revealing that they had come up as a school to provide the items that Emmanuel MUST report to Maseno High school with. This was encouraging news to CESF to realize that the community is also coming together to help Emmanuel continue with his education in spite of the current financial difficulties faced by the family.

On receiving the scholarship Emmanuel could not contain his excitement and found himself hugging the CESF official but his father’s expression was different. His father was so moved he had tears in his eyes. He had given up hope that his son would go to that school and CESF was a miracle. “At this particular moment I was so proud to be a part of CESF,” admits the local CESF representative in Mombasa. The CESF coordinator paid the amount stipulated in the fee structure for term one 2010 - the amount of 23,100Ksh (A$334). The scholarship recipient’s father was handed a copy of the bank slip, and later presented the CESF official with a receipt of the same amount after presenting the bank slip to the school Bursar.

In this case the CESF coordinator did not take the child to school since the father was able to do that. This also saved CESF travelling costs.Emmanuel promises to be a worthwhile recipient of the CESF scholarship and this is what the organization aspires to: to reach and help the most potential members of the community.“I felt good to be a part of this child’s success and that is what CESF is all about,” says Maimuna, the CESF coordinator in Mombasa.

Asif N. Mbugua
Age: 18 years
Sex:  Male
Class: Form 4

Asif is among our oldest students who successfully applied for the grant. He is in his final year in high school before he can join university. He is a very bright boy who comes from a disfunctioning family. His father walked out on the family. He lives with his single mother and five siblings. His mother is unemployed and can barely feed the large family.

Asif is a much disciplined young man and is focused on his studies. He scores an aggregate of B in all the subjects. He heard about CESF from a friend and he gathered courage to visit the coordinator who assessed his situation and found him qualifying to get a scholarship to see him through his final year in high school. CESF has yet again come to give hope to another helpless child.

Ethel Kaimbi Mutta
Age: 14 years
Sex:  Female
Class: Form 1

Ethel lost her father when she was two years old. She lives with her mother and two sisters. However Ethel qualified to get the scholarship because she promises academic excellence and high discipline. Her mother suffers from kidney failure and requires an operation - therefore finances are limited in this family. CESF was a great help when it offered to sponsor Ethel’s education for 2010.

Fariya Sharifa
Age: 17 years
Sex: Female
Class: Form 1

Fariya has come from a destitute home. Her mother is a prostitute who tries to make ends meet. She has three siblings. Fariya has been saved from the jaws of sexual exploitation when she had given up hope of further education and sought to earn a living. CESF couldn’t have come at a better time. CESF literally saved Fariya’s life.She is an excellent student in discipline and academics. Her academic history portrays that she has never been anything but position 1, 2, and 3 in the class since she was 5 years old. This is the making of a great scholar. CESF has proven to be the light at the end of her tunnel.

Fariya joined St. Teresa’s Secondary School in Kilifi District Kenya in February 2010 after successfully applying for a scholarship with CESF. She was granted full school fees for the 2010 academic year. At the end of the first term she emerged first in a class of 145 students with an aggregate of A-

Fariya is a girl who makes it worthwhile to help those in need. She has so much potential and CESF is honoured to ensure that she achieves her dreams.