Kianda School Scholarship Project

Kianda Foundation celebrated 50 years of service to Kenya in 2011, having been started in 1961 with a focus on the education of women.

One of the Foundation’s Projects, Kianda School, started in 1977, today has over three decades of experience in educating girls to be good citizens and economic movers.  Many of its past students are in key management and civic positions in Kenya and abroad.

Over the years, the Kianda School management has been solely responsible for finding funds to offer bursaries and scholarships to bright but needy girls. This has often been challenging and unsustainable. Consequently, a cross section of parents got together and decided to come up with a permanent solution as a way of celebrating the 50 years of the Foundation – an Endowment Fund whose target is 200 million. The proceeds of this Fund would allow the School to offer scholarships in a sustainable manner, thus offering an opportunity to many gifted girls to learn and prosper.

The brand name for the Scholarship Fund is PEPERUKA, a Swahili word which means ‘to soar up’. This applies both for the girls on scholarship and for their able colleagues, to move on to a new level of education and personal development.  The Parents Fundraising Committee set a goal to the school body to build a ‘Scholarship Wall with 2,000 blocks. Each scholarship block is Ksh 50,000. Each family that buys a scholarship block is named a Peperuka Champion Family.

Her Excellency Margaret Kenyatta First Lady of the Republic of Kenya and alumnus of Kianda School was named Patron of the Kianda School Peperuka Endowment Fund. The ceremony took place at the School during the Peperuka Cocktail reception on Monday 5th August 2013

For more information, please contact: scholarship@kiandaschool.ac.ke