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A Season of Growth: Celebrating Progress and Welcoming New Scholars
As schools close for the term, the atmosphere at Rise to Shine Education Foundation is filled with pride and gratitude. Our scholarship students have completed another chapter in their educational journey, and their progress reports have been shared with their sponsors. These reports tell stories of effort, resilience, and determination are proof that every investment in a child’s education is an investment in a brighter future. For many of these students, the term has been a
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Tackling FGM in Elgeyo-Marakwet: A Call for Collective Action
During school breaks for the holidays, the risk of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Elgeyo-Marakwet quietly rises. Despite national...
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Roots of Change: Kenya’s New Sparks in Women’s Empowerment
Across Kenya, powerful stories are emerging that highlight resilience and transformation. These stories mirror the mission of Rise to...
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A Journey of Progress: Alumni Visit And Student Welfare Outreach in Elgeyo-Marakwet
This month marked a heartwarming moment for the Rise to Shine Education Foundation, as several alumni of its scholarship program returned...
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Breaking the Cycle: A Community’s Stand Against FGM in Elgeyo-Marakwet
In the quiet hills of Elgeyo-Marakwet, change takes root not through force, but through conversation, compassion, and courage. For...
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Empowering Futures: Rise to Shine Education Foundation’s Impact
In Kenya, where economic hardships often limit opportunities, the Rise to Shine Education Foundation (RTSEF) remains a beacon of hope....
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Scholarship Beneficiaries Excel as Midterm Break Begins.
rtsef family day The Rise to Shine Education Foundation continues to see positive results from its scholarship program, with students...
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The Challenges Facing Education and the Role We Play to Make a Difference
Education, has since its beginning, faced challenges of all kinds. There have been huge milestones so far in Kenya with regards to...
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Using Technology In The Classroom
Technology has become such a vital part of the human experience. Growing up, most of us had to do with makeshift toys, playing pretend,...
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Instability and Education
In the past few weeks, Kenya saw a movement like no other. Protests fueled by bad governance and mismanagement of public funds, led...
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Street and Homeless Children Project
Life on the streets is very harsh especially for the street families and children for most of their daily survival relies on scavenging...
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Special Needs Children Project
It all started with a girl called Sandra. Â When visiting a primary school student at home she was found to have a sister sitting on the...
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Financial Literacy Rural Women Empowerment Project
Financial literacy is the ability to earn money, invest it wisely, and manage it. For a long time, women didn’t hold jobs or have...
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The Recent Floods In Kenya
The recent floods in Kenya caused an unprecedented loss to the country as a whole, with hundreds of lives lost and thousands of families...
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A Glimpse into Precolonial Education in Africa
Education has come a long way, not just in terms of what we are learning but how we learn too. Before the world became a village,...
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Scholarship Interviews
Scholarship interviews are ongoing, please purpose to attend one near you. Rtsef Terms and conditions apply.
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Women Empowerment
The women empowerment project focuses financial training of parents and caregivers of beneficiaries from the education sponsorship...
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Eradicating ‘Jaboya Culture’ Through Education In The Lake Victoria Region of Kenya.
Sex for fish is a form of transactional sex where fish mongers exchange sexual favors with fishermen in to get fish. Along Lake Victoria,...
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Sponsor a Primary Student
Our main Primary Project is based in Busia County in Western Kenya where many children live in extreme poverty and have no chance of an...
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Challenges Facing Youth and Peacekeeping and their Resolutions.
The youth play important roles in the development of any sector. Their vibrancy and out of ordinary thinking has created tremendous...
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