Meet the S.H.E. Students!
Spotlight on Regina
Regina has not only managed to graduate and get a job, she has fulfilled every Maasai daughter’s dream.
She has earned enough money to build her mother a good house.
This has the greatest impact of all: an undeniable reminder to the community of the benefit of educating girls.
Spotlight on Salula
When I was eight years old, my mother told me to make the beads because you need to be beautiful when you are married.
I told my mother, “I’m not going anywhere. I’m going to school.”
My mother said to me, “How will you say that to your dad? He will not allow you to go to school.”
I told her, “I’m going to be the first girl to go to school in this family, and I’m not going to stop.”
Spotlight on Mercy and Agnes
We said, “We are still young! We don’t want to go through this!”
But they told us we were grown up now, and we had to go through “the Cut.”
There is a belief that if you are cut before the cows are milked, you will bleed to death.
At that time, we only had three cows.
We knew we would be cut as soon as the third cow was milked. We watched them milk two cows and start on the third.
Spotlight on Jacinta
Kim Rosen: “I had no idea when I received a desperate email from Jacinta asking me to find money for her college education, that she would be the inspiration for the S.H.E. College Fund.
The eldest of 10 children, Jacinta was her mother’s only hope. Jacinta’s mother was living in a mud hut, working single-handedly as a farmer to feed her family.”
Spotlight on Nelly
Her parents both died when she was five. She was taken to an orphanage where she was forced to carry heavy stones at a construction site.
When she went back to the village where her remaining relatives lived, she was excommunicated from the family because she refused to be sold off into marriage.
