KENYA HELP

In the summer of 2005, retired school teacher Margo McAuliffe embarked on a journey to teach math to girls at Archbishop Ndingi Secondary School in Naivasha, Kenya. Soon after she arrived, she learned that the girls were being phased out of the school. Father Daniel Kiriti informed her that the community had provided a plot of land for a girls' school, but there was no money to build it. As Margo learned more about the limited educational opportunities for girls in Naivasha, she found herself thinking, “I need to go home and raise money for this school.” Thus began the journey from a bare plot of ground in 2005 to the opening of St. Francis Xavier Secondary School for Girls, open to girls of all tribal and religious affiliations. On this plot of land sits a school for 320 students, with 8 classrooms, 2 science labs, a computer lab, library, infirmary, teacher and administrative offices, 2 dormitories, dining/social hall, kitchen, and faculty/staff housing. More important than the physical buildings, this school gives hope to young women, many of whom have no other opportunities for education, to better their lives and the lives of their families.