College Time

Now that we are going steady working on the small businesses, its time to start applying for what they are working towards. The past few days have been filled with almost nothing but college research. The intake dates for colleges here are May, July, and September. They all know what the want to study and are so excited to start applying. Its a bit harder here because not all colleges have websites so a lot of the research has to be done by going to to the actual campuses. 

They all want to go to school so bad, so they are doing the very best they can to earn enough money to go to school. 

The competition here is very competitive when it comes to selling things without an actual store. 

There is a grocery store that has tables out front that people can sell their items. I am trying to work it out so that they can sell their items there. A lot of people go to that store so I am hoping that it will improve their sales. 

I fear that they won't be able to earn enough by the time school starts even with them saving half of their salary and small business profits. I'm hoping that we can do some kind of partial education fund for them. I want them to know that they have to work in order to pay for school but I would hate for them to miss out because they could not earn enough. I'm hoping that if people see how hard they are working to save enough to go to school it might give them some motivation to help them with school. We shall see.

Also.... Kate is going to school on Monday! There are a few sponsors that decided to pay for her school fees so she heads out next week! She is very excited and we are all so excited for her. We will miss her in the program so much, but its great that she has this opportunity to go. She will be going to school in Nairobi so I will be able to visit her and make sure that everything is going well. She will be studying business because she wants to open her own restaurant in the future. 

I am so excited to see the UBC team in two months even though it seems like they were just here last week. I know all the girls will be working so hard on their products to try and sell to everyone that comes so I hope they are ready!

Other than that, nothing else is new around here. Still working hard as ever and doing my best to make sure the girls are ready to take on the world!

More soon!