Access to Education
Need-based scholarships and fee support keep children connected to secondary school and vocational pathways.
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Next Generation Leadership
Equipping widows' children with safe spaces, mentorship, scholarships, and leadership development so they can learn with confidence and shape their future.
Education and mentorship
Nyanam's youth education work supports widows' children through safe spaces, monthly mentorship, scholarships, and practical life skills. The program connects education support with belonging, confidence, and leadership formation.
When a mother is widowed, children often face school disruption, psychosocial stress, and reduced access to opportunity. Nyanam responds by keeping education, wellbeing, and mentorship closely linked rather than treating them as separate needs.
Program lens
Education and mentorship
The youth program combines educational access with mentorship, protection, and practical growth opportunities.
Need-based scholarships and fee support keep children connected to secondary school and vocational pathways.
Mentors facilitate themed learning in technology, environmental stewardship, health, child rights, and livelihoods.
Youth circles create peer communities where children can process pressure, grief, and belonging together.
Children are accompanied through mentorship, check-ins, and referral pathways that strengthen resilience.
Adolescent health and rights sessions help young people navigate relationships, safety, and self-worth.
Immersive annual camps deepen learning, celebrate growth, and reinforce community among widows' children.
The program combines direct support with a longer-term view of growth and opportunity.
Youth connected in 63 youth circles through Nyanam's latest impact reporting.
Children supported with school fees across the wider Nyanam journey.
Typical annual cycle of themed mentorship sessions led by youth mentors.
Immersive youth camp experience for reinforcement, celebration, and reflection.
Story of change
James's story
Voice
James, scholarship recipient and future doctor
"When my father died, I thought my dreams of becoming a doctor were over. My mother could not afford school fees, and I was ready to drop out to help support our family. Then Nyanam's youth education program gave me a scholarship. Not only did they pay for my school fees, but they also provided mentorship and life skills training. I am now in my final year of secondary school with excellent grades, and I have been accepted to study medicine at university."
Help us keep children learning, supported, and connected to mentors who believe in their future.