Each Cherish Sponsorship helps to educate, equip and empower a child in Kenya whose family cannot afford to pay for their K-12 education. Unlike the public school system in the U.S., families in Kenya are required to pay fees and, in many cases, tuition for their children to receive basic K-12 education.  If a family is unable to pay for the fees/tuition, their child is sent home, often unable to return until all the mandatory fees and tuition are covered.  Sponsorship not only helps ensure a student stays in school, it gives them a mentor and advocate from Hope International Ministry Trust who helps prepare them to care themselves and their families, materially, emotionally, and spiritually, once they become adults.

Sponsors may donate annually, monthly, or by trimester.  Trimester donations are due before March 5, June 5 and October 5.

Preschool - Grade 8: $354/year 
($29.50/month; $118/trimester)

Grades 9-12: $585/year
($48.75/month; $195/trimester)

*If you are not current sponsor, please email [email protected] with the student you wish to sponsor before making a sponsorship donation.

Cherish's Watoto Ministry partners with local groups in and near Meru, Kenya to provide supplementary support to vulnerable K-12 students and their families.   Watoto, meaning "children" in Swahili, serves groups of children within a particular school or geographic area, and focuses on projects that address the greatest needs within the community.  Past projects include providing school lunches to kids who would otherwise go hungry and building basic sanitation infrastructure to keep kids safe and healthy while at school.  

Extra Family Gift funds are used to provide graduation gifts to sponsored students and extra assistance to sponsored families who are struggling to pay for food, medicine, and other basic necessities.

Donations to "Where Needed" help our Kenyan partners  cover the operational costs needed to run the ministry and any additional needs not covered by other funding sources.