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Empowering Futures: Rise to Shine Education Foundation’s Impact
In Kenya, where economic hardships often limit opportunities, the Rise to Shine Education Foundation (RTSEF) remains a beacon of hope....
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Scholarship Beneficiaries Excel as Midterm Break Begins.
rtsef family day The Rise to Shine Education Foundation continues to see positive results from its scholarship program, with students...
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The Challenges Facing Education and the Role We Play to Make a Difference
Education, has since its beginning, faced challenges of all kinds. There have been huge milestones so far in Kenya with regards to...
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Using Technology In The Classroom
Technology has become such a vital part of the human experience. Growing up, most of us had to do with makeshift toys, playing pretend,...
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Instability and Education
In the past few weeks, Kenya saw a movement like no other. Protests fueled by bad governance and mismanagement of public funds, led...
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Street and Homeless Children Project
Life on the streets is very harsh especially for the street families and children for most of their daily survival relies on scavenging...
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Special Needs Children Project
It all started with a girl called Sandra. Â When visiting a primary school student at home she was found to have a sister sitting on the...
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Financial Literacy Rural Women Empowerment Project
Financial literacy is the ability to earn money, invest it wisely, and manage it. For a long time, women didn’t hold jobs or have...
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The Recent Floods In Kenya
The recent floods in Kenya caused an unprecedented loss to the country as a whole, with hundreds of lives lost and thousands of families...
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A Glimpse into Precolonial Education in Africa
Education has come a long way, not just in terms of what we are learning but how we learn too. Before the world became a village,...
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Scholarship Interviews
Scholarship interviews are ongoing, please purpose to attend one near you. Rtsef Terms and conditions apply.
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Women Empowerment
The women empowerment project focuses financial training of parents and caregivers of beneficiaries from the education sponsorship...
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Eradicating ‘Jaboya Culture’ Through Education In The Lake Victoria Region of Kenya.
Sex for fish is a form of transactional sex where fish mongers exchange sexual favors with fishermen in to get fish. Along Lake Victoria,...
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Sponsor a Primary Student
Our main Primary Project is based in Busia County in Western Kenya where many children live in extreme poverty and have no chance of an...
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Challenges Facing Youth and Peacekeeping and their Resolutions.
The youth play important roles in the development of any sector. Their vibrancy and out of ordinary thinking has created tremendous...
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Social Sciences or Science, What Path is Better?
Recently, I found myself in a discussion about what ideologies were sold to us back when we were in high school. The over emphasis on...
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What We Should Aim to Remember This Back to School Season
The holiday has been a really long one. Even though this was meant to be a restful period, most students have not managed to catch a...
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Education Over Marriage and "Bodaboda"
For s student to be eligible to apply for the Rise to Shine Education Foundations’ (RTSEF)scholarship, they have to meet the following...
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Why We Should Rethink Our Demand for the Abolition of Boarding Schools
Nearly every year, there is an outbreak of students burning dormitories or other school facilities. Often, it is a reaction to a rule...
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Using the Education We Are Given To Learn What We Are Not Taught
The case of how much our education system has failed us is a never-ending conversation. It is also one where we are unlikely to agree, on...
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