Girls Education, Mission & Service
Our Story
Providing support
Our Girl’s Education Mission is dedicating to empowering young girls to live a better future. We’re primarily in Kenya and taking girls entering junior high or high school and providing them with mentors, educational materials, a small stipend, uniforms and occasionally food. The cost is $300 per year. Sponsors will receive a picture and several letters from the girls regarding their progress. To stay in the GEMs program the girl must maintain a B average and attend school faithfully. MEDS for Africa believes that empowering girls is the way to the future. By any standard when girls and women are empowered and treated as equals the country does better and that is our goal.The fate of nations is tied to the status of women.
What you do to your women, you do to your nation.
-Valerie Hudson
Our Pledge
About the GEMS Scholarship
Below are required guidelines for the GEMS Scholarship Program:
- The scholarship amount is $300.00 and not the entire school fees that is charged by the school that the GEM attends
- MUST maintain a minimum of a B mean grade for all 3 terms to in order to continue to receive the scholarship
- MUST maintain high standards of conduct and discipline in school and the community, as a GEM you are an ambassador MEDS for Africa
- MUST hand over a copy of all term reports within the first week of receiving them
- MUST write to their sponsors at least one letter each term
- All correspondences will be given to the MEDS for Africa program manager at becky@medsforafrica.com
- MUST keep mentor updated with any career or education goal changes