SDG 4: Quality Education

Target 4.1: By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable, and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes.

Target 4.5: By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education.

Target 4.7: By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development.

Project Description:

Mentor-Mentee (M&M) is an education mentorship project designed to provide high school students from marginalized counties with caring and consistent higher education mentors. The project aims to improve the academic and life aspiration of vulnerable students. The mentees are drawn from average performing schools in the conflict-prone area. The mentors are volunteers recruited from colleges and universities. Mentors are screened for eligibility, trained, and oriented for their roles. Mentors and mentees are matched based on gender, shared interests, and career paths. The mentorship process lasts for the entire period the mentees attend high school.

Project Activities:

. Study skills and plan development.
. Career talks.
. Life skills training.
. Behavioral change talks.
. Reproductive health sensitization.
. Sports contest and talent shows.
. School clubs development.

Key Achievements:

. Model projects implemented and completed for four years at Senetwo Secondary School in West Pokot County, Ngubereti Secondary School in Baringo County, and Hindi Secondary School in Lamu County.
. 600 graduate and undergraduate students mobilized, screened, trained, and engaged as project mentors.
. 1200 Secondary school students recruited as project Mentees.
. Over 20 mentorship visit organized for mentors to meet their mentees since 2014.
. The mentee girls have received with free sanitary towels every month.
. Books, learning materials, and games equipment worth over $3,000 donated.
. A sanitation block and a learning block completed in Senetwo Secondary school.
. A school solar lighting project initiated at Senetwo Secondary school.
. 240 Mentees trained on social entrepreneurship skills like Baking, Mat Making and Detergents makingBooks, learning materials, and games equipment worth over $3,000 donated.
. Improved academic performance, college transition, amid reduced school drop-outs, school pregnancies, and indiscipline cases.