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Ombogo Girls AcademyHoma Bay District KenyaAfrica has the world’s highest adolescent birthrates and the lowest number of girls enrolled in primary school. AIDS is removing even more choices for girls, and orphan girls are especially marginalized and are more likely to engage in risky behavior in order to survive. A UNICEF study in Zimbabwe found that orphaned girls are three times more likely to become HIV infected. In addition, the Ombogo Girls' School is located in the Rangwe district of Kenya, which has one of the highest poverty rates in the country as well as one of the highest rates of HIV/AIDS. By providing education to this vulnerable population, we hope to offer a future with choices that may not have been possible otherwise. Being enrolled in school and in a safe environment can help protect girls from HIV infection.  Slum Doctor Programme is currently sponsoring the secondary education of 54 girls, many of whom are orphans, in Homa Bay, which is on the South shore of Lake Victoria in Western Kenya. We are grateful to our donors for paying the school fees of these deserving girls. The cost of tuition, room and board and personal expenses is $800 per year for each student. During their trip to the school in July of 2007, Slum Doctor Volunteers interviewed an additional 60 girls in their first or second year of school, and we are looking for sponsors who are willing to commit to supporting them through graduation. The Ombogo Girls Academy is a privately managed national institution. The Academy is an all girls’ boarding school, catering to girls between the ages of 15 and 18. It was created by the late Mrs. Philgona Okundi to improve the girl-child’s status in an area rampant with HIV, gender disparities, and inadequate educational opportunities.
Mission Statement The Academy’s mission is to recognize, recruit, educate and celebrate the immense untapped potential of the rural African girl-child who strives to be the best academically, and to make a difference in their respective communities. Vision The project envisions a community school with excellent education facilities that are affordable and within reach for the rural girl-child, who has over the years been denied self-advancement due to lack of the same. This vision provides girls with an opportunity to plough back their knowledge in projects or services back into the community. Objectives The project’s objectives are to offer the best education focusing on the intellect, spiritual, physical and emotional growth of the girl-child; and to create a new vision of the rural girl child, one filled with innovation, proficiency, opportunity and hope. Recent Graduates and Graduating Seniors (class of 2008)
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