Memorial
Scholarships
Betty Myers Memorial Scholarship
The Betty Myers Memorial Scholarship was established in 2019 and will be awarded annually to one GLOW Girl who has demonstrated leadership and excellence in humanitarian service to her community.
“Service to others is one of the driving forces behind everything I do. In fact, my team and I are guided by three core values: serve, effect, empower.”
“GLOW Foundation provides college scholarships to disadvantaged women in developing countries. It’s been proven that societies benefit when women have access to higher education, and as an educated woman myself, it’s a cause I stand behind proudly. Women are the backbone of society, and GLOW Foundation gives young women an opportunity and platform where they might otherwise be lost and forgotten.” - Dr. Amy Myers
We are grateful for Amy Myers’ generous scholarship given in honor of her mother, Betty Myers, supporting the future generation of girls.
To find out more about Amy Myers and her charitable contributions please visit her website!
Betty Myers Memorial Scholarship Honoree 2023-2024:
Doreen Njora
The Betty Myers Memorial Scholarship is awarded annually to a GLOW girl for exemplary acts of service and outstanding community impact. This year's recipient has demonstrated remarkable dedication to community service and personal development over the past year.
She has shown remarkable commitment to mental health advocacy by teaching vulnerable children painting and drawing, using it as a powerful tool to promote mental health. Her innovative approach has offered these children a creative outlet to express themselves and cope with mental health challenges effectively.
Her influence extends into the slums, where she has mentored teen mothers, some as young as 11 years old. She has provided guidance and support, encouraging these young mothers to return to school. Additionally, she conducted research to understand the factors leading to early pregnancies, aiming to address and mitigate this issue.
She regularly updates GLOW with her milestones and community service experiences, showcasing transparency and enthusiasm to impact the community.
In her latest updates, she benchmarked the practices of the Canada-Mathare Education Trust, where she volunteers, and shared valuable recommendations with GLOW, helping improve the organization. Her proactive problem-solving is evident in her offer to facilitate a session on social media branding at the 2024 GLOW workshop.
Her community service efforts have led to personal growth, allowing her to expand her network, secure a part-time job, and find various opportunities to develop her skills and interests. This demonstrates her resourcefulness and commitment to using her time wisely for personal and professional development.
For these outstanding contributions, the 2024 Betty Myers Memorial Scholarship is awarded to Doreen Njora. Congratulations, Doreen!
Betty Myers Memorial Scholarship Honoree 2022-2023:
Juster Muthoni
The Betty Myers Memorial Scholarship is awarded annually to a GLOW girl for exemplary acts of service. While all GLOW Girls strive to make a positive impact, this particular one went out of her way to ensure that school children, especially girls, are building their self-esteem and confidence to improve their perception of themselves and life. She achieved this through training and practice, using the skills she learned from the GLOW mentorship programs.
She participated in a campaign to promote access to sanitary pads to young school girls in disadvantaged communities and demonstrated how to use them, while also leading discussions on personal hygiene and reproductive health.
In her spare time, she volunteers in several high schools where she mentors students on goals, setting boundaries, and developing wholesome relationships. She also taught the students the importance of prioritizing and service.
What an effort she must have put in to accomplish all these despite her busy academic schedule and juggling a medical degree at the University of Nairobi.
Join us in congratulating Juster Muthoni!
Betty Myers Memorial Scholarship Honoree 2021-2022:
Priscilla Naserian Lenuure
Each year, we award a GLOW Girl with the Betty Myers Memorial Scholarship, which is given for exemplary acts of service throughout the past school year. While all of GLOW Girls strive to make a positive impact, Priscilla has stood out this year as someone who has gone above and beyond in her recent Community Service.
She is a second year student pursuing a Diploma in Clinical Medicine and Surgery at Kenya Medical Training Center in Meru County.
She has attended several community meetings through which she is vocal and educative to the locals on the dangers of cultural practices that significantly derail any efforts of educating girls such as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), early marriages and bidding of girls which.
Priscilla sits amongst her village elders to advocate for the rights to education for women and girls who are often left out in the community. She emphasizes on the importance of supporting girls in art and beadwork as a tool for economic empowerment.
She has worked in a health clinic monitoring the growth and development of babies by measuring their weights as well as advising on proper dieting.
Priscilla’s academic achievements and her constant commitment to a better future for all those around her make her the perfect honoree for this year’s Betty Myers Scholarship.
Congratulations Priscilla!
Betty Myers Memorial Scholarship Honoree 2020-2021:
Daki Duba Qanchoro
Over the past year, during the Covid pandemic, Daki participated in many community services. She spent her free time volunteering at hospitals, where she taught patients proper hygiene techniques. She also visited patients in different hospitals to provide them with encouragement and hope for the future. Her community service has seen her participate in recording the weights and temperatures of children at local clinics before they could see the doctor.
While also serving patients, Daki gladly helped in the cleaning, treatment and dressing of feet infested by jiggers.
In past years she helped collect garbage throughout her community and around public roads by sorting out the recyclable materials from decomposing ones. In the course of the exercises, she educated her peers on the importance of keeping the environment clean.
Daki has volunteered with the Kenya Red Cross Society to fundraise for communities and families in need and has gone out of her way to translate in different dialects to the people around her that could not understand one language or the other.
She is fully inspired to continue helping every community she is a part of now and in the future.
Daki graduated in 2022 with a diploma in Community Development and Social Work from the Cooperative University of Kenya.
Join us in congratulating Daki!
Betty Myers Memorial Scholarship Honoree 2019-2020:
Jecinta Ann Wanjiru Mwangi
Jecinta is studying Disaster Mitigation and Sustainable Development at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology. Her dream job is to work for the United Nations in disaster management and international relations to bring societal transformation at a high level. Not to be slowed down by a heavy course-load, Jecinta dedicates her free time to numerous community support programs, such as first aid and nutrition training with the Red Cross, tutoring orphaned or deaf youth with the Disaster Emergency and Management Association, and renewal operations with the Peace Ambassadors Kenya. Jecinta views community service as a way to tangibly impact her community and bring future change. Her recent participation in an “anti-jigger” campaign with PAK helped remove the infestation of pests that infiltrated a local community to the point that schools and businesses could no longer function. The campaign diminished the problem and the community regained health. Jecinta’s devotion to advocating for others is a true reflection of her exceptional passion to bring lasting change to communities and shows just how willing Jecinta is to go above and beyond for others.
As someone who views success in both her positive and negative undertakings, Jecinta has proven extremely resilient, taking even the toughest life experiences and turning them into knowledge and insight. She grew up in a small village in central Kenya with her five siblings in one room, her parents in the other, and one small table room to share. Jecinta often battled severe physical illness as a young girl that frequently kept her from school with continuous medical bills. Though her family had limited resources and means of income, they never gave up on her health and did everything it took to support her well-being, despite the costs. Jecinta often felt like an added burden to her family as they often struggled to have enough income for food, education, and other necessities. Life’s obstacles have only made Jecinta more driven and determined to obtain an education and one day provide for her family. She has continually taken her experiences and turned them into perspicacity and a resolution to bring societal change among her community and beyond with profound empathetic advocacy for the disadvantaged. Despite hardship, Jecinta has worked twice as hard to get through school, administering the platform necessary for her to excel and apply for the GLOW Foundation Scholarship to support her through college. Education equals endless opportunities to Jecinta and the scholarships she has been awarded have 100% enabled her to reach her goals and dreams with unbarred potential stating, “being a GLOW girl means we receive and we give back”. The GLOW Foundation is honored to provide the opportunities necessary to support Jecinta’s education and future dreams.
In honor of all of Jecinta’s deep community service, academic achievements and hard work, we are pleased to announce that she is the 2019-2020 Betty Myers Memorial Scholarship Honoree!
Sheryl Hale Memorial Scholarship
In Memory of Sheryl Hale
The power of education knows no bounds - a message that Sheryl continuously drove into her daughter, nieces, and nephews. She knew first-hand the impact higher education could have and was a firm believer that a university education was the first step to success. When Sheryl passed away, her family could think of no better organization than GLOW Foundation to start a scholarship in her memory.
We are so grateful that the Hale family thought of us when finding a way to honor Sheryl's legacy.
