Volunteers at KEEF – The Kenya Education Endowment Fund (www.kenyaeducation.org ) are celebrating the recent announcement of the 2020 “Community Leader” awards in the federal government’s annual Canada’s Volunteer Awards programme. One of their volunteers, Shelagh Armour-Godbolt, has been named for the award in the B.C. and the North region. The selection is based on Shelagh’s many years of volunteering with a variety of charities and organizations serving B.C. residents and with others, including KEEF, that support education in developing countries. A virtual ceremony, later this Fall, will honour all awardees.
“It is both exciting and humbling to be selected to represent the many committed, active volunteers of all ages in our region”, Shelagh said. KEEF “opens doors to the future” by supporting some 135+ very bright, poor secondary and post-secondary students in Kenya – where high school is not free. “The opportunity to access higher education benefits the students, their families, their communities and country. Many Canadians
offer donations – small and large – that KEEF turns into scholarships and support that give Kenyan youth hope for the future.” For more information about the Kenya Education Endowment Fund’s work, contact ware.alinda@gmail.com or keefcan2010@gmail.com, check us out on Facebook and Instagram, or see our website www.kenyaeducation.org
