Educating youth, empowering communities, encouraging conservation.
Ewaso Lions recognises the critical link between education and conservation. Jeremy Lucas Education Fund believes that tomorrows wildlife leaders must be equipped with a solid education today, empowering them to make informed choices to tackle the problems facing our people.
Jeremy Lucas Education Fund
The Jeremy Lucas Education Fund (set-up in January 2017) takes the place of the Ewaso Lions Scholarship Programme. The students will be selected on merit by the Ewaso Lions team together with sisters Shivani and Shalini and one of the main sources will be graduates of the Lion Kids Camps. In each intake, the main focus will be on sponsoring girls, giving them much needed education opportunities that they might otherwise not have access to. Each intake will also look at sponsoring one boy. An important part of the programme will be the regular monitoring of each student by the Ewaso Lions team ensuring that they continuously achieve in their school work, are supported with any challenges that may arise and receive relevant career advice and ongoing mentorship.
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Meet our sponsored students
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Educating youth, empowering communities, encouraging conservation.
On 28 July 2016 my husband Jeremy passed away after a two-year battle with cancer. Jeremy was a lovely, kind man and part of his legacy was a sum of money with which I have set up this education fund in his name for children in Kenya.
Jeremy loved Kenya – and he especially loved Samburu – the land, the people, the wildlife. And, he was embraced by all the people he met there. Just as he had taken Samburu to his heart – the Samburu people had taken him to their hearts.
With the money raised through the fund I am particularly keen to give young people (mainly girls) a chance to further education. I believe that if you educate a girl today, you empower a woman of tomorrow – and change lives of future generations.
Jeremy was always surrounded by strong women. His mother was a resilient, determined woman. And then there is me and my sister Shivani. Both of us are independent, determined in our respective fields – and know our own minds!
Jeremy liked that and celebrated strength in all the women he met. I think Jeremy would approve of a fund set up in his name – predominantly to give girls a chance to grow, learn, achieve, succeed and be independent.
It is a legacy that he would be proud of.
Shalini Bhalla
Educating youth, empowering communities, encouraging conservation.
Meet the 15 students currently being sponsored
2019 saw Ewaso Lions take on five new students into our programme – a record number for this budding fund. Junior, familiar to most as we have mentored him for many years, joined Maralal High School along with Jacob. Jonathan has successfully joined St. Paul and Peter joined Baawa boys in Maralal. Our first students from a new conservancy, Samuel from IlNgwesi has been settled in at Kirige boys in Meru. Hassan, our first Borana student took the longest journey of all, heading to the prestigious national school, Maseno, in Kisumu. All students are doing well, and we continue to thank their sponsors for providing this rare opportunity.
Our other students are also doing well:
- Solomon Lenasalia
from Kipsing completed his secondary school in 2016 and is pursuing a degree in Environmental Management at Kenyatta University. - Painoti Letabare
from Westgate completed secondary school in 2015, helped teach the Mama Simba ladies for a year and is attending Teachers College in north Rift Valley. - Saniki Lelenkeju
from Sasaab village completed Form 4 at Moi Girls Secondary School finishing in 2017. She is now pursuing tour guiding at the Coast Institute of Technology in Voi. - Joy Letabare
from Westgate completed Form 4 at Kisima Girls Secondary School and is studying social work at Mt Kenya University. - France Ekidam
from Loruko village completed high school at Wamba Boys High School. He is now pursuing a course in wildlife management in Thika. Read more about France here. - Eunice Ljakunoi
from Kipsing is in Form 2 at Kisima Girls Secondary School. - Junior Lekirmui
is in Standard 7 at Nanyuki Boarding Academy. Read more about Junior here. - Angeline Wanjiru
from Archers Post enrolled in Form 1 at Kisima Girls Secondary School in 2017. - Veronica Lolokoru
from Learata enrolled in Form 1 at Kisima Girls Secondary School in 2017. - Nicholas Lesootia
from Lorubae enrolled in Form 1 at Maralal High School in 2017.
A success story of the Ewaso Lions education programme is Samson Lerosion. Building on this success and using the lessons learnt from sponsoring him, we are developing a programme that will enable us to support all the students from secondary education to successful careers – all supported by the Jeremy Lucas Education Fund.
