NAIROBI, Kenya, July 27 – 205 learners in Kajiado will receive education support from Prudence Foundation, a charity investment arm of the Prudential Life Assurance Kenya Limited.
The Sh12 million will support students joining first year at the Oloolaiser National School and will run for the next three-years.
“Every year, over 200,000 students qualify for placement in universities and other tertiary education institutions, but thousands of these brilliant students miss out on the opportunity due to poverty,” said Prudential Kenya CEO Gwen Kinisu.
“It really is unfortunate for students to struggle through primary and secondary school education, and just when they are about to join college – where many lives are transformed – they meet financial roadblocks that prevent them from proceeding,” he added.
“The situation worsened after the Covid pandemic with many breadwinners losing their livelihoods. At Prudential, we found this to be a disheartening situation and that is why we have been teaming up with Kenya Education Fund to support some of these needy cases.”
Prudential has an ongoing partnership with the Kenya Education Fund (KEF) that started in 2014 and has seen over 180 students receive full scholarships for their secondary school and university education.
“We receive thousands of applications from across the country and were it not for the support of well-meaning institutions like Prudential, we may not have the capacity to honor many of them,” said Francis Ng’ang’a, the KEF’s Country Director.
