We Are
The Mango Tree Girls School

The School of Excellence!

Our Background

The Mango Tree Girls Secondary School is an educational project developed by The Mango Tree Orphan Support Trust – Kenya (TMT-Ke), which is a non-governmental organisation operating in Homabay County, western Kenya. This county has the highest rates of HIV and AIDS in Kenya and lies along the shores of Lake Victoria. Since 2006, TMT-Ke has provided educational, health and sustainable livelihoods support to orphans and their guardian families, as well as funding water and sanitation infrastructure projects in local primary and secondary schools. TMT-Ke adopts an empowerment approach encouraging community ownership and independence by promoting and encouraging community action and economic regeneration. TMT-Ke strives to improve access to, and the quality of primary, secondary, vocational & tertiary education in Homabay County, with the objective of effecting an increase in attendance, retention and performance of orphaned and vulnerable children, especially for girls.

After twelve years of promoting girls’ education within The Mango Tree community, the number of girls who succeed in continuing into further education at tertiary colleges and universities in Kenya remains low. It is widely recognized that an educated girl will marry later, she will have less children and her children are likely to obtain a better start in life. While this is true, helping a girl stay in education and reach
their highest academic potential is a big challenge and even greater in the case of orphaned and vulnerable girls. After improving the numbers of orphaned girls completing primary school and transiting into secondary school through our Alternative Family Based care model, we still had the problem of higher incidences of pregnancies and drop outs among those who then joined day secondary schools. The absence of parental care, the long distances to school, the lack of basic needs, the challenges of adolescence and the lure of malicious men who take advantage of the situation of the girls becomes too tough for thirteen to seventeen-year-old girls. This caused us to prioritize boarding school for our girls thus leading us to greater success. It is from this experience that we wish to build the girls’ boarding secondary school
in order to take girls education a notch higher. This time not just for the orphans but for the entire community.

Board of Trustees

Celine Awuor

Board Chair

She has a total of 31 years' experience in the education
sector leadership and she is also involved in the girl child's 
empowerment



Consolata Achieng

Board Secretary

The Mango Tree Orphan Support Kenya Founder and Country Director,
is a champion for the underprivileged, a warrior for the girl child that has been looked down upon, and disregarded as insignificant

George Mburu

Board Treasurer

He is a qualified accountant, with
over 15 years’ experience in
accountancy and auditing with organizational and
administrative skills.



Kerubo Getui

Board Member

Dr. Neema Mbaruku

Board Member

Scholastica Shimechero

Board Member

Lea Atieno Auma

Board Member

How can you get involved?

You can Donate to our Efforts

Your support today makes it possible for us to create lasting, positive change in the lives of many underprivileged and disadvantaged girls in need. Your sacrifice will directly and indirectly help thousands of needy girls and their communities.

Any amount you give, whether in cash or in kind , will help us ensure that we'll be here to carry out our mission for many years to come.

You can Volunteer your Time or Skills

We need Ambassadors of the Cause to help us drum up support for our efforts, to generate interest in our content online by sharing, or curating conversations with the many who would then want to be part of our cause.