Kenya Girls Opportunity Fund
What do we do?
The Kenya Girls Opportunity Fund is dedicated to empowering girls and young women in Kenya by providing them with the financial resources and support they need to pursue an education.
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What good can just a few people do? We have been surprised. We can lift a whole family out of poverty by educating one child. We can save an orphan from a life on the street. We can give the women in a village the first chance ever to be treated by a female doctor by sending girls to medical school. We can keep a 7-year-old from working as a live-in maid. We can help a pregnant rape survivor by paying for maternity care. We can send blind girls to training school. We can and we have make brighter futures.
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It is quite simply the best weapon there is to break a cycle of poverty and combat child marriage and child labor.
Our work includes paying off school fee debts, providing tuition, uniforms, shoes, sanitary and school supplies, transportation, housing and computers to the neediest girls.
When we take on the responsibility of a girl's education, we stay the course, taking her as far as she wants to go.
We have trained doctors, nutritionists, school administrators, hospitality specialists and more than 100 high school graduates.
Education
Security
KGOF works with the most vulnerable girls and young women. We are a stopgap for their safety and security in an unsafe world. Orphans, amputees, vision impaired - our girls were well on their way to being forgotten in a society with few safety nets. Instead, they are confident leaders and professionals who can, in turn, lift up the next generation of needy girls.
Meet the Team:
Molly Hermann
Jared Oremo
Rob Lyall
Molly Hermann and Rob Lyall are co-owners of The Biscuit Factory, a documentary production company near Washington DC. While filming in Kisumu, Kenya in 2015 on a project about clean water they met a mother who asked "What can you do for my girls?" The family lived in a mud hut at the top of a hill without electricity or running water. And theirs was just one of thousands. The scale of the poverty was honestly breathtaking.
What could they do? They asked their local partner on the shoot, Jared Oremo, who suggested paying tuition directly to a school. Education is technically free up to 9th grade in Kenya, but uniforms and supplies can be an insurmountable cost and high school requires tuition. If a family can only afford to send one child to school, they will often choose their male children.
With Jared's help, they put one of the daughters, Marion, through high school and teacher's college. They raised money through a GoFundMe for a laptop. Once she was working as a teacher, Marion shared the needs of her students - from sanitary supplies to school fees. So many girls were just on the edge of having to leave school. And without an education the prospects are dim - early marriage, working as a domestic servant, even prostitution.
What started as a promise to one mother has become a mission - to help as many girls as possible. Jared remains an instrumental part of the effort - vetting needy girls, working with schools, arranging for transport and other needs. In 2025, the project got a name and 501(c)3 status - the Kenya Girls Opportunity Fund.
If you support our cause, please consider donating
100% of our donations go directly to the girls. KGOF operates on an entirely volunteer basis with NO OVERHEAD.
The cost of changing a life is shockingly low. $75 can pay for an entire semester in school. So far we have raised $18,000 and contributed $62,000 ourselves. That's a lot of girls!
Success Stories and Letters of Appreciation
If there was a symbol of this project is has to be a sincere letter, carefully printed on notebook paper - imploring, describing, thanking and reminding us that a little can make a huge difference to someone who has nothing. It's not just the money, it's the idea that someone cared enough to give.
This work is only possible because of the significant, continuous contributions from The Biscuit Factory production company, the founders of this initiative.
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When you work with The Biscuit Factory, you directly support KGOF