Sunflower Global

Sunflower was a new non-profit organization founded by a 2017 AllPeopleBeHappy Volunteer Service Award grant recipient.  Renamed Sunflower Global, it currently runs The Sunflower Literacy Lab, located in the Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya, home to a community library space with seating for 80 students, as well as four academic classrooms, and an outdoor hall.  Starting early in 2018, using a $10,000 grant from the AllPeopleBeHappy foundation, Sunflower initiated the Sunflower Fellows program, which gives low-performing, vulnerable girls in the informal schools in Kibera literacy and leadership training to build their academic skills and self-confidence.  In 2019, with a second grant from the AllPeopleBeHappy foundation, the renamed Sunflower Global launched the PALE (Pathways to Alternative Learning and Education) program, a more structured education program for upper primary school girls.  The PALE program serves fifty poorly-educated primary school girls daily, providing students with a variety of alternative education and literacy programming, including extensive literacy training, reading and writing skills, sports and physical activity, counseling and social emotional support, and academic field trips.   (www.thesun-flower.org)