Help me keep Kenyan girls in school!

Molly Gerbracht Hermann is organizing this fundraiser.

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Hi Friends,

You may remember Marion who we at The Biscuit Factory put through teacher's college in Kisumu, Kenya. Here is her graduation pic:

Many of you generously supported a GoFundMe to buy her a laptop (impossible to acquire cheaply in Kenya) a few years ago.

Marion is now a full-fledged teacher and has started a non-profit effort, to help her female students, called Duo-Educators. Duo-Educators is Marion (assessing needs, doing home visits and distributing items), our wonderful fiscal coordinator Jared (a scientist and community educator for a clean water/HIV ngo) and me, the money person. You might get where I'm going with this - hoping I can raise a nest egg to help keep these efforts going, especially as COVID has been an additional financial challenge.

Here's the great thing - helping these girls is a crazy BARGAIN. The things that make the difference between staying in school and dropping out: school and period supplies, shoes, uniforms, school fees (mostly for orphans) and (lately) vaccinations (for HIV positive girls), masks, soap and hand sanitizer.

Here's the awful thing - IF they drop out their choices get bleak quickly. Early marriage, transactional relationships with older men and sex work. (And HIV, HIV, HIV.)

So I hope you will consider joining us here at Duo-Educators!

Through photos, videos and several lifetimes of receipts for maxi pads, I can assure you that the money is going to the right place. Oh, and Marion makes lovely reports on her laptop:)