A Brightened Life, by Favour Wamboi
Thank you Alison Strong of Manhattan for your donation to Lenana Girls High School in Kitale, Kenya! Not only will your contribution help to complete the school, we now have the opportunity to read Favour Wamboi’s essay “A Brightened Life.” She is in the first year of high school at Lenana.
Favour entered her essay in Lenana’s First Annual Writing Competition sponsored by Lift the Lid and was awarded an Honorable Mention. In her story, we see how important going to school is to her, so much so that she entered into marriage at an early age for the promise of an education. But that isn’t the end of her story. In fact, it is just the beginning.
Favour, I really admire your hope and your positive outlook. It will take you far in life, so treasure this side of your personality. Your essay was very well written and carried an important message about perseverance. I look forward to reading more of your work!!
Sara
Favour – your words demonstrate your commitment and drive to gain an education. My hope for you is that you are embraced by the new community at your school and have the freedom to study, rest, feed your heart, mind and soul and be guided by loving mentors.
I am humbled by how fortunate I have been in my life to receive such fine years of education and I wish you too the opportunities and chances to succeed.
With gratitude to all of the people who make Lift the Lid possible and wishing you, Favour, a wonderful New Year.
Sincerely,
Alison
Favour will be collecting her admission form tomorrow to prepare for the official joining of Form One at Lenana Girls High School. Thanks Alison for your donation to the school. It is the first school in Kenya to truly adopt the Teach A Man To Fish model of education. We are entrepreneurial minded and teach the girls how to run various businesses, in addition to the standard subjects.
We are happy that you are a part of this great effort. So far more girls have applied than we can handle financially. The top applicant scored 407 marks and the lowest has 326 marks out of the possible 500 marks in the National Exam. They are very bright girls who are orphaned or with little to no family support.