The HBEF board and staff members wish each one of our sponsors, supporters, beneficiaries and their family members a Merry Christmas and a prosperous 2016!

As the Pope arrives in Kenya for his first ever visit to Africa this evening, we welcome him and wish him a fruitful and blessed stay. We are on the final touches for our tri-annual Beneficiary Monitoring and Support Visit that begins on Monday 30th November and we pray for journey mercies for all our students and great sessions. During the sessions we get to motivate them through our PSS sessions, we also find out how the last term was, we analyze their performance from the last term and they fill in action plans on what and how to improve in the next term and they get to write thank you letters to their lovely sponsors. Thank you to our sponsors for your support throughout the 2015 Academic year. Please do sign up to sponsor a child in 2016 and let us change a child's life together.

The Kenya Certificate of Secondary Examination(KCSE)ended last week after a month of exams. We thank God with our 167 candidates who were sitting the same and look forward to celebrating their success results next year in February. It has been a great 4 year journey through secondary school. A big thumbs up to all our Sponsors for making this happen.

As the 2015 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education prepare to sit their exams this week, we send them our very best best wishes and pray that they do well as we hope for a very strong 2016 class.

Please do sign up to sponsor a child in 2016 with us. The links are at the top of the page.

God bless you all

Dear HBEF Friend

The Rose of Sharon kindergarten kids are joining HBEF in celebrating Purple Cake Day in Kenya on October 21, 2015 by raising money to support the 15th child. Please fill in to their basket and join the kids helping kids in Purple Cake Day (http://www.purplecakeday.org/) by donating any amount on this link: https://give.creativevisions.org/checkout/donation?eid=56893 and leaving a comment in the box provided to let us know that it is for Purple Cake Day 2015 in Kenya.

P.S:  No amount is too little!
Thanks, we value your partnership

Its with gratitude and a lot of appreciation that I take time to write this to all of you. It has been a while since I said what is going on with me. I have been up and down praying and putting all my plans before God who is the provider to all of us. It is He who has made this happen and I believe that He still has a lot to come for everyone and I. Thank you so much to everyone who have donated, shared and prayed about my story. I believe that together we can do this. I am almost having enough money for next semester and Yay! There is light at the end of the tunnel. Please keep sharing and praying.

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KENYA CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION (KCSE) RESULTS FOR HILDE BACK EDUCATION FUND CLASS OF 2014

Our 2014 Form Four candidates performed remarkably well in their Kenya Certificate of Secondary Examination. The Kenya University and College Central Placement Services recently announced the cut off mark for Public University Admission as grade B of 60 points for boys and grade B- of 58 points for girls.

Out of a total number of 104, 73% did qualify for Public University Admission. A further 22% who scored C+ and above also qualified to join alternative university programs. The rest 5% may choose to undertake diploma courses.No student scored less than a C-. We wish all of them the very best as they continue with their higher studies.

We are happy to have enabled them to come this far. We look forward to even greater results with our 169 candidates who will be sitting for their final exams at the end of the year. A big thank you to all our sponsors..

A documentary film that focuses on the work of HBEF has been nominated for "Best Documentary" in the Emmy Awards. The film has also made a successful debut on the world stage, with popular appearances at key film festivals in America, Europe and the Caribbean.  The Film is titled ‘A Small Act’. Please watch the trailer here http://www.hildebackeducationfund.com/multimedia/documentaries

Ms Hilde Back, the Swedish woman who is the inspiration behind the creation of HBEF, celebrated her 92nd birthday on 3 October 2014, with tributes pouring in from many people in Kenya and elsewhere whose lives she has changed forever.

A new HBEF report titled "Promoting Education as a Human Right" was launched on the 10th of October in Johannesburg, the same day the world learned that Malala, the young education activist from Pakistan, had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

The HBEF Founder, Chris Mburu, completed the Nairobi Half Marathon yesterday and helped further spread our advocacy message that EDUCATION IS A HUMAN RIGHT!