Some 160 students are set to benefit from the Kenya Education Fund Program.
The fund was established in 2007 to support and provide economically disadvantaged students in Kenya, by providing scholarships, support and educational resources.
This is in a bid to help them improve their lives and the communities they come from.
According to Executive director Dominic Muasya, the program with support from other partners also offers access to leadership to marginalised children in 47 counties.
“The program offers comprehensive support for the scholars through the provision of tuition fees, accommodation, books, uniform and reimbursement of transport for special events e.g career workshops, during their 4 years of secondary education and one-year bridge scholarship,” Muasya said.
The fund supports top-performing children from financially challenged backgrounds through their secondary education.
Muasya said some of the fund’s donors are charities based in the United States.
Locally, the organization has partnered with Prudential Life Assurance, which will support 85 students from the batch of 160 that will be joining the program this year.
The support will be in the form of funding through one phase of the scholarship.
Since its inception, KEF has supported over 4,000 bright but needy students through secondary education.