ONCE AGAIN ANA MARIA IS GOING TO BE UPENDO CHAMPION!
Like Ana Maria, help Martha to reach her Dream !
To raise money for Marthas education (scholarships to secondary boarding school)
Ana Maria is going to run the Half Marathon of Madrid (28th October).
As you can recall: For the girls of Upendo, Ana ran in May 2018 the UAM Run, Half Marathon located in Madrid. Previously, in 2017, she ran the Half Marathon of Madrid (April 2017). Marathon of Valencia ! (November 2017). And we saved the best for the last, in November 2017, Ana Maria ran the Marathon of Valencia (42 epic kilometers).

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 Martha an orphan girl to defy the odds and continue her education!

Please support Ana Marias 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.