Our Impact

These young women have overcome enormous
obstacles to achieve their education.

For many, it is poverty or an abusive caretaker; others have been caught in tribal wars and forced to become refugees in their own country. These young women have confronted long-standing cultural bias including, the belief that girls are not entitled to an education, and cultural practices such as child marriage and Female Genital Mutilation.

GLOW Foundation offers these young women an opportunity to rise above the extreme difficulties and receive a higher education that enables them to achieve what once might have been considered unattainable dreams.

126 College Scholarships & Counting!

Get to Know Our Girls


Mesret

Water and Environmental Engineering

“My goal is to change people’s lives as mine has been changed. I want to do this so that I can smile with everyone around me. It is hard to smile while people all around you are hungry and crying.”

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Mary

Entrepreneurship

“Being in school enabled me to run away from child marriage and other cultural activities in my community. My mind is now open to life-skills that I could not have if I didn’t get the chance to go to school.”

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Lilian

Hospitality & Tourism

“Thank you GLOW Foundation. You’re making a very big impact on our lives and I don’t know how I can appreciate you in words, but you’re changing so many girls’ lives here in Kenya.”

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Daki

Social Work

“I want to change my community from FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) and early marriages to save young girls from these hardships and help them achieve their dreams.”

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Jecinta

Disaster Management & International Diplomacy

“Being a GLOW girl means we receive and we give back.”

GLOW 2020 Betty Myers Scholarship Honoree

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Winfred

Sales & Marketing

“Thanks again for relighting my hopes in education. I feel I’m not the same Winfred who joined school a year ago. I can’t wait to learn more in the remaining year and then go to the world as a woman ready to serve the nation.”

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Mary

Geospatial Engineering

“It is not easy for a Kenyan girl to go to university or even to high school because there are so many challenges and they think that a boy child is the one who should get an education first.”

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Florence

Information Technology

“I always feel happy and satisfied
when I do my best and leave at least
one person with a smile on their face.”

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Purity

Business Computing

“At the end of a two-week community service project, I ended up creating an inpatient and outpatient record system which helped the nurses and doctors get access to patient records easily. I am happy that the system is still being used.”

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Lilian

Education

“Thanks to GLOW, my dream of going to university has been fulfilled. I am about to GLOW out here! Just watch me make my moves!

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Dianah

Hotel Management

“And it’s true what they say,
what doesn’t break you
makes you stronger.”

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Natalie

Environmental Management

“I’d love to go to school, come back to my community, and change everything that people believe about girls. I believe that when a girl is educated and they get their rights, everything will change.”

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