EASF Grants
Cherry Kandie (Dartmouth) & Caroline Kimetto (Harvard).
In 2013, EASF awarded its first organizational grant, to the Education and Social Empowerment Program.
EaSEP, a Kenyan NGO based in Nandi Hills and founded by Kenyatta University professors Lillian and Mike Boit, has placed 65 students at American universities since 2009, including Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Cornell, Brown, Penn, Dartmouth, MIT, Columbia, Duke, MIT, Cal and Northwestern. Each year, EaSEP selects a small group of outstanding students from low-income settings and provides them with five months of intensive tutoring for the SAT and TOEFL exams, pays their exam fees and gives extensive support in selecting the American universities to which they will apply. EASF pays for airline tickets for American tutors and registration fees for the TOEFL, SAT and SAT Subject Tests. With a budget of approximately $225,000 over nine years, EaSEP has helped leverage scholarships valued at close to $16.5 million.
With EASF as its major donor the past five years, EaSEP helped 41 students earn $10.25 million in scholarships. Fourteen of those students have been awarded scholarships which recognize their global leadership potential, including the King Leadership Scholarship at Dartmouth, the World Scholars Program at Penn, the Kluge Scholarship at Columbia, the King-Morgridge Scholarship at Wisconsin-Madison, and MasterCard Scholar Programs at Wellesley, Michigan State, Cal and Duke.
EASF gives annual financial support to the SHE CAN (Supporting Her Education Changes a Nation) which helps post-conflict Rwandan women access higher education in the US. The program has placed 28 Rwandans at US schools and matched each with an American mentor. EASF also donates to TanSAO (Tanzania Student Achievement Organization) a resource center in Dar es Salaam for students wishing to attend worldwide universities, and to CIYOTA (COBURWAS International Youth Organization to Transform Africa) in Uganda for its work in educating youth from refugee camps as well as impoverished local students. In 2017, EASF added Bridge to Rwanda, a program which has placed 165 students from Rwanda and Burundi at international universities. Tujenge Scholars Program in Burundi was added in 2018.
Like EASF, these five nonprofit organizations are members of the HALI Access Network for high-achieving, low-income African students.
EaSEP, a Kenyan NGO based in Nandi Hills and founded by Kenyatta University professors Lillian and Mike Boit, has placed 65 students at American universities since 2009, including Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Cornell, Brown, Penn, Dartmouth, MIT, Columbia, Duke, MIT, Cal and Northwestern. Each year, EaSEP selects a small group of outstanding students from low-income settings and provides them with five months of intensive tutoring for the SAT and TOEFL exams, pays their exam fees and gives extensive support in selecting the American universities to which they will apply. EASF pays for airline tickets for American tutors and registration fees for the TOEFL, SAT and SAT Subject Tests. With a budget of approximately $225,000 over nine years, EaSEP has helped leverage scholarships valued at close to $16.5 million.
With EASF as its major donor the past five years, EaSEP helped 41 students earn $10.25 million in scholarships. Fourteen of those students have been awarded scholarships which recognize their global leadership potential, including the King Leadership Scholarship at Dartmouth, the World Scholars Program at Penn, the Kluge Scholarship at Columbia, the King-Morgridge Scholarship at Wisconsin-Madison, and MasterCard Scholar Programs at Wellesley, Michigan State, Cal and Duke.
EASF gives annual financial support to the SHE CAN (Supporting Her Education Changes a Nation) which helps post-conflict Rwandan women access higher education in the US. The program has placed 28 Rwandans at US schools and matched each with an American mentor. EASF also donates to TanSAO (Tanzania Student Achievement Organization) a resource center in Dar es Salaam for students wishing to attend worldwide universities, and to CIYOTA (COBURWAS International Youth Organization to Transform Africa) in Uganda for its work in educating youth from refugee camps as well as impoverished local students. In 2017, EASF added Bridge to Rwanda, a program which has placed 165 students from Rwanda and Burundi at international universities. Tujenge Scholars Program in Burundi was added in 2018.
Like EASF, these five nonprofit organizations are members of the HALI Access Network for high-achieving, low-income African students.
