GLOBAL RELIEF RESOURCES SCHOLARSHIP FUND and The Tasaru Girls Rescue Centre in Narok, Kenya

Many of you are familiar with the tax deductible college fund that I established 18 months ago to assist girls from The Tasaru Girls Rescue Centre in Narok, Kenya with post secondary education and job training when they finish high school in Kenya and leave the rescue center. The Tasaru Girls Rescue Centre provides a safehouse and education through secondary school for girls of the Maasai tribe rescued from female genital mutilation and forced childhood marriage. Although these practices are illegal in Kenya, they are still prevalent among the Maasai people who number approximately 800,000 in Kenya today.

While the name of this fund has recently changed (from the Tasaru Scholarship Fund to the GLOBAL RELIEF RESOURCES SCHOLARSHIP FUND), nothing else about the fund, or how it operates, has changed. Global Relief Resources, Inc. is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization based in Santa Fe, NM. Global Relief Resources created this fund to be devoted entirely to assisting girls from The Tasaru Girls Rescue Centre in Narok, Kenya with post-secondary education. It is the only source of funding devoted to these girls when they leave Tasaru and pursue the further education and job training they need to find sustainable employment in Kenya.

Since establishing this fund, I now spend my time here in the United States raising money to pay college tuition fees and all of the other expenses related to a college education in Kenya for these girls as they transition out of Tasaru. Right now, the fund is paying the expenses for THE FIRST TWO GIRLS FROM TASARU TO ATTEND COLLEGE: Semerian is attending Kericho Teachers College and Makige is attending Mosoriot Teachers College. A third girl, Susan, has just begun studying Accounting at Kenya Polytechnic in Nairobi. 10 girls from Tasaru have received computer training because of the fund's assistance, and one girl, Sila, has gone to driving school. I hope very much to soon be able to assist Sila in buying a vehicle so that she can start a small taxi operation in Narok - the first woman taxi driver there!

Donations to this fund are tax deductible and used SOLELY to pay the tuition and associated costs of sending girls from Tasaru to college or other post-secondary programs for job training. Donations are not used for any administrative or operational costs of the fund and I pay for my own travel to Kenya. When you make a donation to the fund, every dollar of what you donate is used for a girl from Tasaru with her post-secondary education.

For more information, to make a donation to this fund, or request a brochure about the fund, email me at mewalker99@yahoo.com.