ONCE AGAIN PASCAL IS GOING TO BE UPENDO CHAMPION!
As you can recall: For the girls of Upendo, Pascal ran twice the Barcelona Half Marathon! 2017 and 2018. Also, he ran a 5K within Yahoo! a corporate race organised to raise money for our charity.
Like Pascal, help the orphan girls of Upendo to reach her Dream !
This year Pascal is going to run the EDP Lisbon Half Marathon 22 Mar-2020

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 the Upendo orphan girls to defy the odds and continue their education!
Every euro counts ! You can make a difference ! With less than 1000 euros we can ensure that a girl has an education and a better life ! Make it happen !
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.
We can add that the percentage of population age 15+ which has completed secondary school is only 13.30% ! Regarding, primary schooling, only 21.95% of the population age 15+ has completed primary school.
Upendo provided its 40 orphaned children with a very good primary education.

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.
22 years later: it appears that 36 of the orphans of Upendo have graduated from primary school. 36 of the girls have graduated or will be graduated from secondary school. And Eunice managed to lead 21 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. Later, they will be able to help their community, education transforms a cycle of poverty into a virtuous circle!
It is reinforced by the fact that the orphans we help are girls! To quote an African proverb, When you educate a man you educate an individual : When you educate a woman you educate a generation

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 !
Every euro counts ! You can make a difference ! With less than 1000 euros we can ensure that a girl has an education and a better life ! Make it happen !