Meet Our Students
Every day children around the world are born into poverty. The communities they are born into are often neglected, with little aid or few resources to end the cycle of poverty. You can financially support a child in the neglected communities we serve, to provide him/her with an educational opportunity to overcome poverty.
Donating to our Sponsorship Program not only helps a child, but their entire community. Please review the child profiles below to see our candidates for the 2025 school year. We appreciate your consideration to support these children, enabling them to enroll in January.
Sponsor Our Students
Your one time or recurring donation will assist with our students’ tuition, school supplies, uniforms, medical expenses and more. You will receive general updates on our students throughout the year.
Sponsor + Mentor a Child
Go above and beyond with your sponsorship and become a Sponsor + Mentor. This level of sponsorship is a year long commitment of at least $50/month or $600/annually. You will be matched with a student to communicate with throughout the year. You will hear your child’s story, walk alongside them as they grow, and receive updates on their personal progress as they learn.
Ismael Otieno Onyango
Grade: PP1
Gender: Male
Languages: Luo, Swahili and basic English
Bio: Ishmael’s family lives in a small mud house, sharing the single room with three children. His mother works as a casual laborer on farms, and they rely on this work to survive.
Sheldon Willis Otieno
Grade: PP1
Gender: Male
Languages: Luo, Swahili, and learning English
Bio: Sheldon is the youngest in a family of four children. He lives with his mother, a casual laborer, in a three-room mud house.
Elida Akinyi Olilo
Grade: PP1
Gender: Female
Languages: Luo, Swahili, and basic English
Bio: She lives with their family in a three-room mud house, shared with five children. Her mother operates a small business to provide for the children.
Gavin Otieno Odoyo
Grade: PP1
Gender: Male
Languages: Luo, Swahili, basic English
Bio: Gavin’s parents are casual laborers, and they often struggle to make ends meet. He is the second-born in a family of three.
Jayden Ouko Okungu
Grade: PP1
Gender: Male
Languages: Luo, Swahili, and learning English
Bio: Jayden lives with his mother, who is a single parent after Jayden’s father abandon the family. His mother works as a house help and struggles to provide for Jayden and his younger sibling.
Brivon Cate Atieno
Grade: PP1
Gender: Female
Languages: Luo, Swahili, and learning English
Bio: Brivon lives in a double-room mud house shared with five children. Her mother works on local farms as a casual laborer to support the family.
What does a sponsored child get?
- Access to basic needs such as food, clean water, education and health care
- Encouragement – many of our sponsored children are orphaned. Your support gives them a sense of security, love, and self worth as they grow
- Safety & security with trained staff members to oversee each child’s needs, especially monitor for signs of neglect, abuse, hunger, and medical issues
- The opportunity to be a positive change in their community
What do I get as a Sponsor + Mentor?
- Letters, cards, and videos from your matched child
- Annual progress report about your child and their community
- Life changing opportunity to visit your sponsored child
- Lasting relationship that continues after your sponsorship ends
Top Sponsorship FAQs
Does my $50 go directly to my child's family?
Sponsorship funds are pooled together to cover the needs of all our students, to ensure your sponsored child will benefit as we work on sustainable, long-term community development and improvement.
How long is my sponsorship commitment?
If you committed to being a Sponsor + Mentor, your committment is for a year. However, we hope you will continue supporting and communicating with your matched child as they move through primary school. Many sponsors form a tight relationship with their sponsored child, and form life-long relationships.
What if I need to cancel my support as a Sponsor + Mentor?
We understand life can be unpredictable and you may have to make changes to your commitment. Your ongoing support allows us to care for all our students’ needs. We ask that you contact us directly prior to cancelling your Sponsor + Mentor commitment to allow us to secure additional financial support, as well as reassign your child to a new mentor they can communicate with throughout the year. For questions or changes to your Sponsor + Mentor commitment please email childsponsor@lincworldwide.org
Am I the only sponsor for this child?
We allocate sponsorship donations to benefit all our students and their community, to ensure he/she receives the best opportunities to not only survive, but thrive. When you commit to being a Sponsor + Mentor you are matched with a specific child to communicate with throughout the year. If your financial support is canceled, the child will be reassigned to another Mentor to communicate with as they continue through school. There may be situations when a child will be matched with more than one Mentor.
Can I communicate with my sponsored child?
The Impact of Child Sponsorship
Meet Marylyne Onyango – our dear friend at Linc Worldwide and key project coordinator of our Awasi School Project. We met Marylyne through our Kenyan liaison, Dr. Bonyo with Bonyo’s Kenya Mission in 2015. She’s incredibly hard working, poised, and driven. Marylyne’s professionalism and kindness are immediately noticeable upon meeting her. Hearing her story shows the profound impact child sponsorship has, not only on one child’s life, but the lives of thousands. The ripple effect is phenomenal.
“My name is Marylyne Aluoch Onyango. I am 28 years old and a graduate of Maseno University class of 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science. I can proudly say that I am who I am today because of Benson Bonyo’s Kenya Mission (BKM).
I lost my dad and mum when I was still young and was left in the hands of my mum’s sister; Seraphine Odongo, who took me and the rest of my siblings as hers and did her best to educate all of us. On reaching form 3 (grade 12), economic times became harder and paying for my high school boarding school fee was becoming harder and harder. I stayed home for the better part of the first semester of form 3 and a part of me was afraid that I may have to drop out of school. I could not continue with my classes at Ahero Girls High School until my term 1 fees were cleared.
It is around this time that Bonyo’s Kenya Mission came to my rescue. The administrator, Mr. Phillip K’ Osambo found me and enrolled me into the program. It is from then that I never lacked school fees and rejoined school in term 2. BKM provided for my fees and visited me in school from time to time to check on my well being at school. The visitations brought a warm loving feeling, with every visit I felt I had a second family.
On completion of high school, I was happy to be among the shortlisted to join Maseno University, a public university in Kisumu West Constituency, to pursue a bachelors degree in Actuarial Science. It’s just amazing that BKM continues their support until I cleared my 4 years in school. I am forever grateful to BKM and Dr. Bonyo for the support.
I dedicated my school breaks and volunteered as a translator at the medical clinic during BKM’s volunteer trips in July and December. I also worked with George Otieno and other staff in managing the child sponsorship program, running the hospital and other activities such as orphan day celebrations, etc.
Today, I am happy that I am working at the hospital in Masara village; Kisumu, Kenya full time. As I witness most of the kids who were stuck like me get a chance to attend school to completion.”
Marylyne is currently the hospital administrator at Mama Pilista Memorial Medical Centre, which was started by Bonyo’s Kenya Mission. She helps run their child sponsorship program, is in the process of obtaining certified Public accountant-Kenya (CPA-K), and oversees our Awasi School Project. Her child sponsorship provided her with the necessary support and education to overcome her cycle of poverty, impact the lives of the thousands of patients seen at the medical center, and make it possible for our Awasi School Project to succeed. Our goal is to give our future student’s the same opportunity to reach their full potential, and in turn, strengthen their community, just like Marylyne. Your decision to sponsor a child will begin the ripple effect which will impact thousands of lives for years to come.