ONCE AGAIN RICCARDO IS GOING TO BE ESTHERS CHAMPION!
Like Riccardo, help Esther to reach her Dream ! She wants to become a surgeon and help others !
To raise money for Esthers education (scholarships to secondary boarding school ) Riccardo is going to run the Marathon of Dublin (28th October).
As you can recall: Back in 2014: Riccardo ran his first Marathon ever (Dublin) for the girls of Upendo
(to raise the funds for paying the annual salary of a primary school teacher).
In 2015 and 2016 he ran respectively, the Dublin half Marathon and the Venice Marathon, to cover the cost of Esther first two years of secondary school.

Esther is a very promising girl, extremely bright with an altruist touch.
Esther wants to become a surgeon:
"I would like you to sponsor me from form one to University. The reason as to why I want to reach from that level to the last one, is that I want to attain my goals. I would like to be a surgeon when I grow up. And for that, I will be able to help my siblings, other orphans and you too"

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world
Nelson Mandela.
You can change the course of a life, help a community and help the world !
You can help Esther an orphan girl to defy the odds and continue her education !
Please support Riccardos effort !

The certified Kenyan NGO we support, Upendo Childrens Rehabilitation Centre (UCRC), also known as Upendo School and Childrens Home is an
orphanage and school located in the rural Muranga East district in Kenyas Central Province.

UCRC does not provide its orphans with a secondary education. Consequently, it is essential to send the girls to different secondary schools.
Sadly, only 48% of girls in Kenya attend secondary school, among orphans, the statistic drops even further.
Upendo provides its 40 orphaned children with a very good primary education.
Upendo pupils lead academically in their division and are in the top ten in the district of 63 primary schools!

History: Back in 1997, Eunice W.Kamotho, the founder of UCRC the Kenyan NGO we support, decided to act and saved a group of orphans.
21 years later: it appears that 32 of the orphans of Upendo have graduated primary school. 20 of the girls will be in secondary school . And Eunice managed to lead 14 girls to University & College or technical training.
Also, 220 local children benefit from an education at Upendo Primary School

Upendo plans to continue and educate the more than 40 orphaned girls through scholarships to secondary boarding school and post secondary school. These scholarships allow the girls to continue their education while learning a sense of independence that will carry them through the rest of their lives. Their secondary education will allow them to escape the cycle of poverty they currently face in rural Muranga.