Proposed Student: Paul Wahugo
Proposed School Program: Kenyan secondary education
Paul Writes:
My name is Paul Wahugo Njogu. I am from Kimende, Kenya in Kenya’s Central Province. I was born on the 27th of November 1990. I am the first born in a family of six. I finished primary school in 2006. I schooled at Matathia Primary School near Kimende, Kenya. I joined escarpment secondary school in 2008, where my parents were struggling to pay for my school fees and eventually could not afford them, which led to me dropping out of school.
Since then I have been at home doing lots of household and farm work. I am trying to find someone who can support me to go back to secondary school in order for me to fulfill my career dream. For each day I dream to be a politician who is going to bring change in my community and if I can get any support I believe I will make it.
I kindly request your support to help me to finish secondary school, which I think will greatly help me succeed in life. Once I am educated I believe I will get a good job and I will be able to help my family, relatives, neighbors and my community at large.
I really like the idea of what Education is Power is doing. It helps the young people who have the capability to help their communities. I would kindly request the well wishers to help me go back to school because I know education is a treasure and would not like other young people to experience what I have gone through in life living in poverty in my home.
It would not be possible for me to go school without outside help because my family is not able to raise the required amount for me to go to school. Some members of my extended family do not know the importance of education since they themselves did not go to school.
I had also tried to get funding from the constituency development fund but they do not support students continuously.
Future goals
I would like to be an engineer and complete university. Once I am employed, I believe I will be able to support my family and my community by helping those in needs especially with obtaining an education.
Note: Paul has been forced to change secondary schools and start from the begining. This is do to his large debt at Escarpment Secondary School, and the fact that it has been too long for him to have well retained all that he learned in his one and a half years of secondary school at Escarpment. His former teacher from Matahia Primary School advised paul that it was not worth paying the huge balanced that he owed at Escapment Secondary, and that it after his time away from school it would not be a good start to begin at year two. Paul is now attending Mbau-ini Secondary School as of February 2010. Mbau-ini is also located close to Kimende, Kenya, which is 60km North West of Nairobi.