# Kindfund Education Tertiary Fund
About two months ago we were contacted by one of our faithful sponsors to inform us that he would like to donate a lump sum to Kindfund for his upcoming birthday,
Kindfund Education Tertiary Fund (KETF)
It is not often we write anything about finance, but recently we have had a development about which you should be informed.
For some time, we have been praying about how to put the financing of tertiary education unto a more secure footing and we believe that God has opened a small door to help us support our children. In the past due to financial restraints, we have only been able to support third level education in a very limited way. Education in Kenya absorbs a lot of finance, and we have successfully focussed on primary and secondary levels. Usually by the time the children are through secondary they are 18 years and have reached adult status moving out of the home. However, with more success in the last two years some of our children have been reaching third level earlier and we are anticipating this trend will continue for the next few years.
So, what has happened? About two months ago we were contacted by one of our faithful sponsors to inform us that he would like to donate a lump sum to Kindfund for his upcoming birthday, and could we suggest something specific that might benefit the children. You can guess the rest.
We were considering launching a specific fund to assist our children with third level aspirations and on hearing this he immediately recognised the benefit thus the launch of the Kindfund Education Tertiary Fund.
Now, we have a standard Grant and Loan scheme which encourages the applicants to look for other funding from relatives, to work during holidays, to apply for bursaries from the local councils and other NGOs. However, in most cases this is insufficient particularly if the wider family is either unknown or is very poor.
We don’t propose to change this approach but in deserving cases, where we are satisfied all other avenues have been thoroughly explored by the student then we would use this fund to intervene to save the student from dropping out for financial reasons.
We thank God for this development.
An Education sub-committee of Kindfund’s main Board will administer this fund.
Should you be prompted to support please designate your donation KETF
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