[two_third] Name: Susan Korere Age: 16 Form 4 (Grade 12) – January, 2018 School: St. Jude Boarding School PA-MOJA Scholarship started: Form 1 (Grade 9) Tribe: Samburu Sponsoring School: Madison East High School, Madison, Wisconsin, […]
[two_third] Age: 17 Form 4 (Grade 12) – January, 2019 School: Giakanja Boys High School – Boarding PA-MOJA Scholarship started: Form 1 (Grade 9) Tribe: Kikuyu Kennedy lives with his parents Daniel Kinyua and Alice […]
[two_third]Misheck Kariuki Age: 17 Form 4 (Grade 12) School: St. Augustine Secondary – Boarder PA-MOJA Scholarship started: 2015 – Form 1 (Grade 9) Sponsoring School: Windermere Secondary, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Misheck lives with his mother […]
[two_third] NAME: Christine Ole Santa Age: 17 Form: 4 (Grade 12) – January 2020 School: Njoro Girls’ School – Boarder PA-MOJA Scholarship started: Form 1 (Grade 9) Sponsoring school: Queen Elizabeth Secondary, Surrey, BC Christine […]
[two_third]Age: 16 Form: 4 (Grade 12) January, 2019 School: Nanyuki Boys’ High School – Boarder PA-MOJA Scholarship started: Form 1 (Grade 9) Sponsored by: Private Donor Hezron is the first born in a family of […]
[two_third] We first met Vincent Halema at the Nanyuki Children’s Home in July, 2014. He was the sickest baby we had ever seen. He was severely underweight and in and out of the hospital for […]
[two_third] August, 2011 Toni Hourston is a nursing student who has spent six summers volunteering at the Nanyuki Children’s Home. One day she asked us to pick her up at the Home because Karen, a […]
We met Grandma Mary and her six grandchildren in 2008 when they lived in Mai Maihu in the Rift Valley. They lived in extreme poverty and all the children were malnourished and suffering form multiple ailments. We […]
Esther Longyongorot Ekadeli lives in Debatas with her husband, Ekadeli Longor Ebuw, their nine children and his five children from a former wife. She and her husband are both Turkana, one of the 42 tribes […]
[two_third] The PA-MOJA logo began with the desire to match our vision of a world where people and wildlife are equally valued and co-exist in a mutually beneficial way. We wanted a simple logo that included […]
Winnie Wamuyu comes from a very poor village in the district of Nanyuki in Kenya. Her father left when she was young and her mother remarried. When Winnie was a grade nine student at Tigithi […]
Tanki Nyeusi Primary school, near the town of Debatas, is PA-MOJA’s poorest sister school. Most of the children survive on one meal a day. Eleven year old Maria Napirai immediately stood out from the large […]
Pauline Kagendo’s story begins with her daughter, Sarnaver, who, in 2015, was a Form 4 student at Loise Secondary School. Sarnaver was the top student at her school and was chosen to stay with Canadian […]
In August, 2015, we visited a group of Samburu women who live near Tanginyeusi Primary School. An old woman named Maria Leswda approached us and showed us her right hand; it had atrophied into a […]
Robert Morijoh was 18 years old (Class 8) when we met him at Uaso-Nyiro Primary School in 2012. He is playing a hand-made Massai guitar called a lchamuke which he practices every night. The theme of […]
Helen Kariuku was a young Kikuyu student who had a dream to go to university to become a special needs teacher. Her mother had died of cancer and her father wanted her stay home to […]
Joel Ndung’u was struggling to keep up his high marks at Sweetwaters Secondary because his family home had burnt down and he and 11 members of his family were taking turns sleeping in a tiny mud […]
In 2008, we stayed at the Jumia Resort Centre in Limuru, a couple hours southwest of Nanyuki. We decided to go for a walk to see the local farms. We noticed a young boy following […]
A few questions for Richard Vigne, CEO of the Ol Pejeta Conservancy: 1) Where were you born? Kericho, Kenya 2) Where did you go to school? Ampleforth College in England, Newcastle and Cranfield Universities in England – Zoology and an MBA 3) How long have you […]
Ian has worked for PA-MOJA for two years. He is passionate about Butterfly Effect and the voice that it gives to young people in Kenya. In 2016, Ian travelled to Canada with three students from […]
Elizabeth Nyawira and Hellen Njoki are the main cooks at Pelican House. They have become an integral part of the PA-MOJA team and have taught us many lessons about Kenyan culture. They both have small […]
John Mwangi has been driving for PA-MOJA for four years. He has a wife and three children, one of whom, he adopted when his sister passed away. John is more than a driver and has […]