Building Community Capacity with Youth Education

   Since 2010 Small Solutions Big Ideas along with our partner Rise Kenyan Youth have been building youth leaders and and reaching more than 2,000 children each year with exciting, engaged educational programs.  The community and its families now see that there is a future for their children.  The parents are now more engaged in school parent groups, a much higher percentage of students are completing Secondary school and scoring near the top  of the Primary School exams.   There are now more than 20 young Kenyan students who have benefited from the sponsorship of families from Massachusetts.  The students form their own peer support groups to improve their studies and participate in activities that build the kind of confidence that builds leadership qualities.  Bonaventure Masika (pictured middle) is a lead teacher and Kenya Program Manager. Sandra Thaxter, founder and President of SSBI, is to his left..

More students want to participate. We constanly battle to purchase more laptops, and add teachers and special programs to our offerings. We need your support. In an unstable time when immigration to the US is overwhelming, we can do a lot to stabilize countries with minimimal resources by educationg their youth and building young leaders.