Just got back from Musingu High School for Boys. My Rotary Club sponsors 2 students there: Mathias in Form 2 and a Form 1 boy soon-to-be-chosen. The form 1's dont start school until Feb. We also met with Moses a one-legged boy (lost through a series of infections he is still dealing with) whose significant medical bills are paid by Michael Pontus from RC Strathcona Sunrise. And we met Brian who is a boy supported by our daughter club Cumberland Centennial (I wish I knew how to put names on pictures). all students are boarders there. It now costs $700/ year. Prices have gone up, so our club will have to pony up more money or we will have to look for a cheaper school. It was only $500/ yr 2 years ago and we have budgetted for $600/ yr working our way towards having 4 boys in school per year.
The stories are just terrible, drunken fathers, orphans. I'll let Tanya tell that part. The boys are very quiet, asked for nothing. We talked to them, but they were very shy. They were told Rotary works hard to raise your school fees, therefore you must work very hard to get good grades, and, we they love you.
Hats off to KEEF for handling the beaurocracy and confusion. It is far, far more than writing a cheque to select these boys and fight through bad parental units, no phones, bad roads and beaurocrats to get them into school. Musingu is a very good school, but may be getting to a point of unaffordability. Alot of KEEF's sponsors are individuals where $500 was alot never mind $700 per year.
L to R is Alinda, Mathias (RCSS), Brian (RCCC), Moses et moi.
Marie (from KEEF) & Tanya talking to the boys. Tanya and I haven't met the boy we support through KEEF yet because he does not go to Musingu HS.
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