Rusalia Resource Foundation
Transforming lives through Education
Rusalia Kenya | Kisumu, Kenya
Rusalia US | South Bend, Indiana
WHY GIRL’S EDUCATION
Providing high school education for girls in Kenya can have a profound impact on their economic and life trajectories. Girls who receive a secondary education are more likely to secure better-paying jobs, contribute to the economy, and support their families. They are also more likely to delay marriage and childbirth, which can improve their health and increase their earning potential over time. Furthermore, educated women are more likely to invest in their children's education and provide a better quality of life for their families. By investing in the education of girls in Kenya, we can help break the cycle of poverty and inequality, empowering these girls to become agents of positive change in their communities and beyond.
Education Changes the Story
A Kenyan Teacher’s Message
This is a teacher’s account of form one's admission week: a week bound to imprint indelible memories in the young minds beginning the journey.
“As a teacher, you witness most of it. As parents troop in with their children's luggage, you notice the divide; the big cars parked alongside waiting motorcycles. Big metallic boxes full of stuff fresh from the supermarket versus rusty, old, and almost empty boxes; perhaps only full of hope. Fat cheques with fee overpayments versus teary eyes of parents pleading for mercy because they couldn't raise half the fee. A student arrives in the company of happy kids, mingling with one accompanied by a visibly ailing mother. A father tipping everyone within a 50m radius in appreciation for the cordial treatment versus another father pacing up and down, making incessant pleas for M-PESA top-ups to help plug some deficit. Parents take pictures for memories while others walk back home with their kids because they hadn't enough money to get their kids admitted.
When they finally put on the school uniform, it somehow camouflages the pain, struggle, anxiety, and worry. All you see, are little innocent souls with a whole future ahead of them.
As learning begins the poor kid whose mother sold her all to get her a chance in her dream school, soon realizes that the playing field has been leveled, that she has walked into another chance to change her story. Show me an equalizer greater than education!”