The New Year has come with a pleasant surprise for some of last year’s Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examination candidates.

Eleven of them at Nairobi’s Kibera slum, six of them girls, were on Friday given secondary education scholarships by non-profit organisation Children of Kibera Foundation (CoFK).

The organisation decided that because the pupils performed well in an environment fraught with little food and comfort as well as inadequate reading materials shows that there is a great potential that could go to waste due to poverty if not tapped.

The CoFK intends to spend an estimated Sh3.75 million on the high school studies for the bright, but poor, pupils.