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Precious Sisters is a charity trust created to support the education of girls and young women in Kenya. We sponsor under-privileged girls through four years of secondary school at two schools - Precious Blood Kilungu, and Precious Blood, Riruta. The majority of the cost of all secondary education has to be paid for by the students' families in Kenya. The girls are chosen on the basis of financial need. In most cases neither parent will have permanent employment. Many are from single parent families and some are orphans. If these girls were not to find a sponsor they would be prevented from going to secondary school. They are all academically very able or else they would not have been offered a place at either school, both of which are consistently in the top 20 secondary schools in Kenya.
There are 52 beneficiaries in the 2010 school year, and we plan to increase this number to 80 on an annual basis subject to availability of funds in the next three years.
We closely monitor the success of the girls during their time at school and mentor them at the start of every term. We continue to support them in different ways in the years immediately after they leave school to help as many as possible to get into university and so they can leverage the knowledge and skills they have gained at school in their careers.
 . In class at Precious Blood Kilungu
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