Read The Star's coverage of KEF's VIVA ELIMU event at Nairobi's Tribe Hotel on January 30th, 2012 Six years ago Bradley Broder was in Northern Kenya and he met a woman who was on her death bed. Her dying wish was that Bradley ensure that her daughter made it through high school. He went back home and his fund raising efforts were so successful that he raised so much money that he and his team sent more Kenyan children to school. Click below to read more: http://www.the-star.co.ke/society/society/60944-kenya-education-funds-tribe-soiree … [Read more...]

Decision to Add Kenya Education Fund to 2011–12 Catalogue Based on In-Depth Review WASHINGTON, D.C.—This year’s Catalogue for Philanthropy: Greater Washington (www.catalogueforphilanthropy-dc.org) will contain a new, worthy non-profit organization— Kenya Education Fund (KEF), whose mission is to provide disadvantaged students in Kenya, and their schools, with support and educational resources so that they may improve their communities and break the cycle of poverty in the country. After a rigorous review process. CFP selected the … [Read more...]

Have a listen to KEF executive director, Bradley Broder, as he is interviewed in Nairobi on XFM Radio.  Air date 1/11/11.  Nairobi Radio interview - KEF's Bradley Broder … [Read more...]

Lifestyles Magazine May, 2008When Bradley Broder takes off the beaded Masai cuff that he wears on his left arm as a reminder of his life in Kenya, he smiles.  He’s sitting in a slick conference room in midtown Manhattan, but the arrow-like tips of the blue and orange triangles that dance across the bracelet’s snow-white beaded background point him back to Loitoktok, the little border town on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro where he spent two years while in the Peace Corps. What he sees in his mind’s eye is not the squalor, the … [Read more...]

The New York Times August 6, 2006 By Celia W. DuggerAt a time when millions of people each year are still being infected with the virus that causes AIDS, particularly in Africa, a rigorous new study has identified several simple, inexpensive methods that helped reduce the spread of the disease among Kenyan teenagers, especially girls. In Kenya, where poverty drives some girls to sleep with older men for money or gifts, teenage girls are seven times more likely to be H.I.V. positive than boys the same age. The new study found that when … [Read more...]

The Sunday Times—Review June 26, 2005Poor African children benefit more from independent schools than government ones for a fraction of the cost, says James Tooley. Why are aid groups and pop stars against them? On BBC's Newsnight last week the international development secretary Hilary Benn showcased free primary education (FPE) in Kenya — supported by $55m from the World Bank and £20m from the British government — as the shining example of aid to Africa not being wasted. He's not the only one clutching at this example for reassurance: … [Read more...]

New York Times October 24, 2004 By Celia W. DuggerMALINDI, Kenya - More than 200 first graders, many of them barefoot, clothed in rags and dizzy with hunger, stream into Rebecca Mwanyonyo's classroom each day. Squeezed together on the concrete floor, they sit hip to hip, jostling for space, wildly waving their hands to get her to call on them. Their laps and the floor are their only desks. One recent afternoon, the line of wiggly children waiting to have Mrs. Mwanyonyo check their work snaked around the bare, unfinished classroom walls. Girls … [Read more...]