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My Graduation at HHFL

Saturday 2nd July 2016 will remain one extremely special day for me and for my entire HHFL family! We converged at our wonderful and newly spruced HHFL compound to celebrate a great achievement that was not only attained by one 'HHFL alumni' but by efforts from each individual. 

HanneHowardFund (HHF) is a Community Based Organization; a hands-on, family-oriented grassroots charity that works directly with vulnerable children and youth in Kenya to help transform their lives and achieve self-reliance through education, compassionate care and skills training.

HHFL has been and is still the most humble abode for many HanneHowardFund Lenana - Kids, myself being a proud beneficiary. It has seen and helped most of us transform into young self-reliant adults and responsible Kenyan citizens too. The first and now self-reliant lot of beneficiaries (otherwise known as the post-secondary group) have taken upon themselves to 'give back' to HHFL in various ways. 

One major way is through WAO (We Are One); a 'contributions & giving back club' composed of all the post-secondary HHFL beneficiaries. This team occasionally come together to not only to spend time with the young ones but also to empower, motivate and steer them towards a path that will eventually get them to where 'the WAO' are. 

We are on a journey to unveil a WAO Scholarship fund with our monthly contributions and we hope that even with help from sponsors, donors, well-wishers, we too will try and make a change as this was done to us at some point. We believe that "To those whom much has been given, much will be required."

This graduation day was one among the many successes that we have celebrated and it gave the young ones new hope and zeal to approach life; but specially education in a more defined and focused way!


Their broad smiles, their bright eyes clearly showed how happy this made them! "If one of us (and others before) could do this and get to this point despite the hurdles once experienced, how about us? We are not suffering now, we go to the best schools, we have people who take care of us? We are medically fit, We have people who sacrifice for us,What then, will prevent us from achieving even more success?"

I thank God for this day and thank him too for HHFL!

For more information and steps for helping out, visit our website: Hanne Howard Fund Lenana 
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  1. Kathure kiunga8 July 2016 at 23:24

    Congratulations mercy. Really humbling. I wish you well.

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    1. A Stellar Woman's World19 July 2016 at 22:36

      Thank you so much Grace! ..and thanks too for passing by :)

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  2. Unknown9 July 2016 at 06:53

    Wow,so inspiring,congrats

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  3. Anonymous11 July 2016 at 09:18

    Congratulations Kangsy, we are so proud of you.

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  4. Anonymous14 November 2016 at 04:09

    A big congratulations top you girl. It's a shame I wasn't invited to join in the huge celebrations there. You are undoubtedly a conqueror and a great source of inspiration to many of those kids. Hopefully they will follow your path.

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