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The MASH Foundation also recognizes that Education is crucially important in the life of a child or youth. Without education children and youths may find it very difficult to compete in the contemporary world. Some talented and skilled children have difficulty in attending school due to lack of school fees.

Developing nations have realized this and pledged to give every child the chance to attend school regardless of their age. Though education is said to be free, guardians or parents are requested to pay a small fee per term so as to facilitate provision of teaching items and food to the pupils. Since poverty is on the increase, the majority of bright and potentially academically children cannot manage to raise this necessary fee.

They are frequently sent home for not paying tuition fees and in the worst cases, they never resume classes if the fee is not paid, most drop out of school and end up in juvenile delinquency, married off at a very young age or forced into child labour. The Mash Foundation gives these children a second chance, through education sponsorship.

It costs £30 per term to keep a child in primary school. These funds pay for tuition fees, examination fees, development fees and activity fees per term, which is 3 months. In total, this is £90 pounds per year and this pays for three terms for a child in primary school in Kenya.

Pupil selection process

What?
The MASH Foundation identifies talented, underprivileged pupils in Nairobi and the surrounding region in Kenya.
Who?
Pupils are identified by MASH trustees Charles Macharia, a social worker, and Nancy Mugure, a primary school teacher, through an established network of teachers and social workers.
How?
MASH trustees have built strong working relationships with local headteachers in Nairobi and the surrounding region, consulting with headmasters and headmistresses.
A discussion with teachers about the pupils’ academic performance, home situation and family structure takes place before meeting the pupil informally, to get to know them and offer encouragement and support.
The MASH Foundation selects only a small number of pupils to ensure that they are sponsored until graduation.

NB:
The MASH Foundation sponsors children from primary to secondary level only and our strategy is to help the children excel and get good grades, so that they can secure places in college and university, as well as get scholarship from other institutions if they meet the required conditions.