St. Charles Lwanga Secondary School is a charitable institution which provides education, shelter, medical care, recreation programs and basic needs to about 830 children from poor family backgrounds, orphans and from the streets in or around Ruai-Nairobi. The school’s goal is to empower these children through teaching, training, mentorship and role modeling to be self-reliant and easily integrated into the community. 

Father Waldrep wants to help protect the 405 young women who attend this school from the harmful cultural practices of female genital mutilation and early marriage. This can happen through the building of a female dormitory, which will replace the current temporary structure built of corrugated metal sheets, and give day students, who have endured unsafe commutes to the school, the option of staying overnight.

Your gift will help these adolescent females buck the possibility of teenage pregnancy, dropping out of secondary school and many unpleasant consequences related to early marriage.