There are several ways that you can help give long-term help to these families in need. The gift of a goat, scholarship programs, and providing African girls with the ability to stay in school.

Give a Goat. This family livelihood program promotes self-sufficiency by providing dairy goats to orphaned and impoverished families and to the grandmothers (nyanyas) who care for them. Its purpose is to create a source of family livelihood and to improve basic health and nutrition.

The Give a Goat partnership program creates a framework for building community and individual self-sufficiency. One dairy goat can provide a family with up to a gallon of milk every day; enough milk to give protein-rich nutrition to the whole family. Income earned by selling surplus milk pays for food, clothing, medicine and school supplies.

Goats are prolific breeders and can produce offspring several times a year. Milk production from a small herd can eventually support an entire family and build financial security.

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This program provides secondary school scholarships to high achieving needy youth in the Nyakongo Zone of Kendu Bay. Its purpose is to give the region's most capable destitute students access to educational opportunity so they may lead the way in their community's future development.

Secondary schools in Kenya are private and most are boarding schools. For rural families living on less than $2/day a high school education is out of reach for even the brightest child. The Scholarship Program extends a lifeline to students in Kendu Bay, where two-thirds of students eligible to join high school lack the means to pay the required school fees. This KSHP empowerment program targets this population and its most capable needy students.

The competition for scholarships has ignited the entire educational system. Teachers and schools scramble to qualify their students for the region's only educational bursaries, while students labor to compete for a life-changing chance for an education.

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Stay In School for Girls. This comprehensive girls empowerment and AIDS prevention program builds gender-sensitive girl's latrines at partner schools and supplies re-usable sanitary pads to adolescent girls in the Nyakongo Zone of Kendu Bay. Its purpose is to keep girls in school and to provide critical reproductive health and AIDS education.

To help girls stay in school, village widows (nyanyas) work at donated sewing machines to make re-usable sanitary pads, costing $1.00. The production of three pads supplies a girl's needs for one year and provides a small stipend to the widows who make them. Trained educators distribute Nyanya Pads in partner schools and conduct reproductive health and AIDS education classes.

Lack of privacy from poor latrine facilities equally discourages girls' attendance. Shared facilities and broken doors fail to protect a girl's privacy. To avoid humiliation, adolescent girls stay home during their periods, losing a week's instruction each month. The effect of this gender-based barrier shows in regional testing, where girls rank 15% lower than boys. It is not through lack of motivation or intelligence that girls fall short; only the chance to learn.

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The Kenya Self-Help Project is an authorized 501(c)(3) public charity. Its volunteer board of U.S. directors assures that 100% of every donation is applied to designated programs and services.

To learn more visit the Kenya-Help website at www.Kenya-Help.org