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Can’t visit Kenya this year? Meet our students in this video instead.

January 10, 2020

Can’t visit Kenya this year? Meet our students in this video instead.

Watch this short video to meet our students and hear about their goals for the future.

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Reflecting on Meeting WSI Students

July 18, 2019

Reflecting on Meeting WSI Students

By Jacque Bode In May 2019, a group of WSI supporters traveled to Kenya to visit the students and meet with the program’s volunteers and partners. This post is the first of several by that group of t...

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WSI Trivia Night

June 20, 2019

WSI Trivia Night

WSI’s annual Trivia Night fundraiser is just around the corner! For our fifth year, we’re sticking with what works and changing nothing except the questions! Come have a good time enjoying pizza and ...

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Great words from this year’s two graduates

January 27, 2019

Great words from this year’s two graduates

Marion and Lydia graduated from Christ the King Girls’ Boarding High School in December 2018. They are the sixth and seventh WSI sponsored students to complete high school. They wrote us letters soo...

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High school graduates bound for university

January 27, 2019

High school graduates bound for university

By Tom Bode, President Lydia and Marion graduated from Christ the King Girls High School in December 2018 after four years of support from WSI and earned impressive results on their all-important fina...

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Three new students

January 14, 2019

Three new students

By Tom Bode, President With a new year comes new students. In Kenya, eighth grade students receive the results of their all-important national test, the KCPE, in December. In January, we learned which...

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Peris’s Story

October 11, 2018

Peris’s Story

By Tom Bode, President Last time we visited Kenya, we recorded Peris telling us about growing at St. Pauls’ Primary School and eventually becoming a student at Nairobi University.  It’s a powerful tes...

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WSI Trivia Night is coming!

May 17, 2018

WSI Trivia Night is coming!

Win fabulous prizes! Please join your friends at WSI on July 12 at Lucky Lab Pub to celebrate our successes, support our students, and play bar trivia. We will have updates on the students, trivia gam...

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Summer Trivia Night

July 11, 2017

Summer Trivia Night

What’s better on a summer evening than enjoying Lucky Lab’s pizza, salad, and beer with your friends, while playing trivia, AND supporting a great cause? Please join us at Lucky Lab Pub on August 10th...

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WSI

June 21, 2017

Visiting a Student’s Home

By Ruby Buchholtz, WSI Board Member When was the last time you were so overwhelmingly welcomed into a strange land? For me that time was during my trip to Kenya with WSI Board President Tom and Board ...

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New WSI student Joyce begins her freshman year

June 5, 2017

New WSI student Joyce begins her freshman year

By Tom Bode, President World Scholarship Initiative’s tenth sponsored student, Joyce, began her freshman year at Christ the King Girls Boarding School in February 2017.  We recently received a letter ...

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The Power of Education

January 10, 2017

The Power of Education

By Tony Mecum, WSI Board Member While we we in Kenya last June, WSI Board Member Tony Mecum, a middle school science teacher by in New York, taught science classes at St. Paul’s Primary School.  This ...

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