In August 2018, my wife, Diane, and I travelled to Kenya and had the opportunity to meet a number of the young women who have received scholarships for their university education through the Rotary African Women’s Education Fund (RAWEF).
The students who are supported through RAWEF are from Uganda and the western part of Kenya. The western part of Kenya was very hard hit by the HIV/AIDS crisis and there are many families where the father has passed away leaving the mother with no means of support for her family, or perhaps both parents have passed away. Many of the young women who graduate from Secondary School have no hope of being able to attend university, due to financial constraints.