Bidii Foundation Initiatives

  1. Empowering the marginalized in the community to access high school and college education.

  2. Supporting local women through entrepreneurial projects that provide nutrition for children and income for the entire family.

  3. Making community service the cornerstone of our communities.

Educators are Innovators

Access to education reduces poverty, lowers infant mortality, reinforces democratization and political stability, reduces inequality, and lowers crime rates.  Educated communities have fewer and healthier children and are more likely to send their children to school.

However, there are numerous reasons for primary and secondary education system failures in rural Kenya, such as lack of technology, difficulty of getting to school and financial limitations. Even when tuition is free, there are often additional expenses for lunch, school uniforms, textbooks and standard examination fees.

Providing children with access to quality education reflects commitment to empowering and fostering future leaders. Access to education offers children skills that will enable them to prosper later in life and create opportunities to better their communities.

Our hope is that every child living in rural Kenya will have the opportunity to achieve his highest potential education regardless of his social economic status.

Electine Sifuna
President

 

Overcoming Socioeconomic Barriers

  • 26% of the school age children are forced into child labor

  • 20% of the Kenyan populations live below the international poverty line of $1.25 a day

  • Children in primary school (1st through 8th grade) lack uniforms and often skip lunch when they go to school

  • Lack of tuition, school supplies and mentorship for students going to secondary school can change the trajectory of their lives 

  • While in school, children forgo higher education opportunities to produce income working on the family farm or selling in the marketplace

  •  Primary and secondary children lack self-esteem and motivation to help nurture commitment to academic success

  • Majority of orphans in Kenya are cared for by their elderly grandparents in mostly rural communities living below the international poverty line of $1. 25 a day