TaC students met at Ng'iya Girls' High School for the 2025 Annual Gathering On 28th December, TaC students gathered at Ng'iya Girls' High School in Siaya for the 2025 Annual Gathering. It was a much-anticipated occasion, giving the children an opportunity to meet one another in person. As they attend many different schools, most students only know a small number of fellow beneficiaries, so this time together was especially valuable. Over three days, the children took part in

Astrid Syvertsen and Janke Tolmay at St Mary's Girls High School in Lwak, Siaya County, Kenya. This summer, Teach a Child – Africa (TaC) was delighted to welcome two volunteer interns from the University of Oxford to Kenya. Their visit marked an important step in strengthening our efforts to provide secondary education for talented children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Astrid Syvertsen and Janke Tolmay joined us to conduct an external evaluation of our programme — a thoug

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It is with heavy hearts that we mourn the passing of Mr Joseph Omondi Muchura, a valued member of the TaC family in Kenya.

An applicant and her guardian being interviewed by the local TaC committee Out of 157 (!) applicants, TaC is able to sponsor 37 young talents through four years of secondary school. A new record for us, but applications are also on an all-time high. Applicants present themselves for an interview, ideally accompanied by their guardian, are shortlisted according to transparent criteria and finally visited unannounced at their homes to verify the information. The committee membe

Teach a Child Africa wishes you a happy new year 2024! We thank you for all your support over the year. The 2023 Annual Gathering brought together our 104 students currently at school, a solid delegation from our inspiring alumni and of course our Kenyan and international volunteers. It was a great learning experience!     #educationforall  #endpoverty   #teachachild

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It is with sadness, we share the news of William O'honde's passing on 11th December 2023. William was an educationalist at heart and an...

Thirty-one new talents are going to secondary school with a scholarship from Teach a Child Africa! A big thanks to our sponsors who make this possible! TaC has now more than 100 kids in various secondary schools in Kenya. Thank you!

All 24 candidates passed their secondary exams with flying colours! 21 of them meeting the university cut-off straight, which is an amazing transition rate. Congratulations to all of you! Very, very proud of you!

This week, TaC volunteers have visited the guardians over 30 orphaned and vulnerable children who applied for our sponsorship for secondary education. These visits help us to understand more about candidates’ family backgrounds and validate the information we are given in the application form. We can therefore make sure that we focus our support on those in real need. In the next few weeks, students in Kenya will have places allocated at secondary schools. For those we select

TaC volunteers currently carrying out the unannounced home visits of candidates who made it on the shortlist. This is necessary to verify the information given during the interview. Due to limited resources, Teach a Child Africa needs to be very sure our scholarships go to those who need them most. #endpoverty   #education   #teachachild

Alphonce, Caroly, Maurine and Phylister, Join us in celebrating our 23 finalists, whose exams got delayed due to the pandemic. That didn’t stop them: all 23 passed the final exams in 2021 and an extraordinary 21 qualified for university straight. This is a 91.3% pass rate and the best result in TaC’s history! We wish to congratulate all our beautiful talents. Special mentioning for Joyce from Mbaga for the best result in 2020, a stunning A- ! You all made us proud again. In t

Schools in Kenya were closed in April 2020, but luckily reopened nationwide on January 4th 2021. All 97 beneficiaries returned to school,...

Schools in Kenya are closed since April and are not expected to reopen anytime soon. Exams on the primary as well as secondary level are...

Franziska meeting several TaC beneficiaries. Earlier this June, Franziska, a Swiss volunteer, took a field trip to Nyanza visiting a number of the children supported by Teach a Child – Africa (TaC). During her trip, she travelled to eight high schools and met around 30 children. Her reception, she says, was consistently warm and welcoming, with students rushing to greet her then whisking her off for high-speed tours. She told us that “it was a pleasure to meet all those child

Graph showing the number of students supported by TaC through the years*. Martin Schor at Bern University of Applied Sciences has chosen...

2017 visit to Bishop Okoth Mbaga Girls Secondary School In December 2017, Teach a Child – Africa (TaC) celebrated its tenth anniversary....