Nakuru-Meru School Sponsorship Update

Prepared by Joash Barasa Wakhungu, Innovativecommunities.org.

Part 1

This update concerns the students in the various and respective institutions where they are studying. Part 1 concerns all the university students under sponsorship. Part 2 will be released in January 2023 covering all of the other students.

First, I take this opportunity with my whole heart to pass my greetings to you on behalf of the children sponsored by ICO. Please receive warm greetings from them. They are highly motivated to study because they understand that only education is the key to light their path to be somebody in the future.

I will start with the university level. Through the effort of Mark and Josanne two girls, named Florence and Rebecca, completed university. Florence graduated from Kenyatta University and Rebecca from Mount Kenya University.

These girls come from disturbing backgrounds where there is no hope, no light, and no future. However, through toiling and working tirelessly throughout the years, they completed their degrees.

The sponsors of ICO brought hope where there was no hope; they brought light where there was no light; they brought a path where there was no path; and they brought a future where there was no future.

This is not normal. This is extraordinary. The sponsors of the Nakuru-Meru School Sponsorship Project through ICO stood firm to ensure that the girls received a great education. Now there is hope, light, and a direction leading to the future. The girls are now supposed to go out there and start to do something important and stand on their own to bring a glorious future into their own lives.

For those who study theology, when they graduate, guests are invited. Often, either a professor or a minister of education says these words: “Today you have graduated, just go out there, and spread the good news.” If it is an agricultural class, they say, “Just go out there and change the sector of agriculture.” If it is an engineering class, they say, “Just go out there and bring something new to the sector of construction.” If it is a doctor they say, “Just treat and God will heal.” If it is a lawyer, they say, “Find justice, make a judgement, but give your heart a space to listen to your conscience.”

For the two girls that I mentioned above, I say, “Go out there because you have found hope, and light, and a direction for the future. Implement what you have thought in school with your life experience and moral values, including lighting the future to bring change where you come from.”

Also, there are two more university students, one just starting and another fully engaged in studying law: Winfred and Nahashon. Winfred is a new entry to university. She is studying at Mount Kenya University, pursuing a degree in special education. She wanted to pursue this kind of study to reach more people from marginalized communities.

And Nahashon is in Embu University pursuing a degree in law. He also comes from a difficult background, and he had lost hope because there was no light ahead after high school. But God worked in a different way (in Romans 8:28, it says “and we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose”).

Mark and Josanne met him through Sr. Maureen, bringing hope back for Nahashon.

That is all for now about the university students. Stay tuned for Part 2 in January 2023…

Images of Nahashon at Embu University and Winfred at Mount Kenya University