Wings to Fly - Ushindi Ayieko, a student at Mpeketoni High School.
He is one of the 3,484 students USAID sponsors through the Wings to Fly Scholarship Program.
The Wings to Fly program is helping talented young leaders achieve their potential to change Kenya’s future.
Wings to Fly is a public-private partnership between USAID, Equity Group Foundation, Mastercard Foundation, UKaid, and KfW. The program provides full scholarships that include tuition, room, and board to enable academically gifted but economically disadvantaged and vulnerable children to pursue secondary and tertiary education. The selected young people also receive leadership training, career guidance, and personal mentoring to help them maximize their potential. USAID’s contribution of $26.5 million will support more than 2,600 Wings to Fly scholars over a five year period. Overall, the initiative will support 10,000 young Kenyans with access to a full secondary education by 2019. Original public domain image from Flickr