ElimuMatch

Keep a student in school in the county you care about.

Choose a school, see verified term arrears, and give any amount you can.

ElimuMatch

About

Matching support to students who need help staying in school.

ElimuMatch helps people give toward verified school fee arrears for secondary students in Kenya — by first name only, through the school.

Who we are

ElimuMatch is a trial platform from ElimuMatch Analytics. We are building a practical way for helpers, schools, and partners to connect fee support to students who risk leaving class because of unpaid terms.

Founder

Jesyldah founded ElimuMatch Analytics and leads this trial. The work grew from a hands-on analytics capstone into a live product path: help someone give toward verified fee arrears, leave a receipt the school can trust, and keep the student’s privacy intact.

She works directly with schools and helpers — sitting with the fee journey, listening for what is clear and what is not, and improving ElimuMatch from real use rather than from a slide deck alone.

What we do

Schools approve which students appear and which term balances helpers may see. You choose a school and a student, pick the terms your gift should cover, give any amount you can, and pay by M-Pesa toward the school fee account.

You do not need an account to give. If you want your gifts and receipts on every device, and a quick way to give again, you can save them to your email with a sign-in link — no password.

Why we do it

Fee pressure should not be the reason a student leaves school mid-year. Small, timely gifts — even partial ones — can keep someone in class while families and schools catch up.

How trust works

Helpers see a given name, form, optional score or highlight, and approved arrears — not surname or admission number. Gifts go to the school’s fee arrangements. Schools confirm when money has landed.

We do not claim that a gift alone caused a student to stay enrolled. Schools report enrollment outcomes honestly after check-ins.

This trial

You are using a live product trial with day schools in Kiambu and Taita Taveta. Features, schools, and counties will grow as we learn with partners. Feedback helps us improve the path from “I care” to “I gave.”

ElimuMatch now lives at elimumatch.org. Receipts come from [email protected]; if you reply to one, or write to us, it reaches [email protected].

How to get involved

Three doors — pick the one that fits you.

Privacy & safety
  • Helpers see a given name only — not surname or admission number.
  • No student appears until the school approves the listing and balances.
  • Gifts go toward the school fee account arrangements — not as cash to a helper.
  • We do not sell student data or publish private fee files.
  • We do not claim a gift alone caused a student to stay enrolled.

Contact

Questions about the trial, a school introduction, feedback, or a School Desk or Support Hub sign-in:

Email [email protected]

A person on the ElimuMatch team reads every message and replies from that address. If you are writing about a gift, include the M-Pesa code from your receipt.

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Step 1

Find a school

Where do you want to keep a student in school?
Step 2

Pick a student

Choose a student from the school’s approved list. Tap one to continue.

Select a school in Step 1 to see students you can support.

You do not need to clear the full balance. Every gift helps. Give what you can.

Step 3

About the student

Get to know the student you are about to gift

Pick a student in Step 2 to meet them here.

Step 4

Keep a student in school

Choose which unpaid terms your gift should cover
Step 5

Your gift

Give what you can — up to the selected arrears

Goes to the oldest selected term first, then newer ones — never above what’s owed.

When the amount looks right, continue to pay.

Step 6

Pay with M-Pesa

Confirm the amount, then pay from your phone

Enter your PIN on the phone. This page shows the receipt when payment is confirmed.

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Receipts

Your gifts

Keep your gifts in one place

Optional. Enter your email and we send you a sign-in link, with no password to remember. Gifts you make while signed in are saved to your account, so you can see them on any phone and give to the same student again in one tap.

No gifts yet. When you help a student, a receipt appears here.

Gift sent

You're keeping them in class.

Receipt & sharing

Optional — ElimuMatch emails the PDF receipt to this address from [email protected].

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School Desk

Sign in

Sign-ins are set up by ElimuMatch. Need one? Write to [email protected].

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Support Hub

Sign in

Sign-ins are set up by ElimuMatch. Need one? Write to [email protected].

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Admin

Sign in

For ElimuMatch administrators. Creates School Desk and Support Hub sign-ins and reads the support inbox.

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Sponsor sign-in

Keep your gifts in one place

Optional, and there is no password. Enter your email and we send you a sign-in link. The first link also creates your account. You will see your gifts on any phone and can give to the same student again in one tap.

You do not need an account to give.

ElimuMatch
Email inbox

[email protected]

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Account

Password

ElimuMatch
Admin

Who can sign in

Create sign-ins for school staff and the support team. Each person gets a temporary password and chooses their own the first time they sign in.

Add a sign-in

People with access

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School Desk

School

Choose a task. Confirm gifts, review the student list, add students, update balances, or set the paybill.

0Awaiting confirm
0Students listed
0Confirmed gifts

Confirm gifts

When a gift lands on the fee account, confirm it here. Search the list, open one gift, then confirm.

Students on ElimuMatch

Full register for this school. Open a row for approver details, then jump to balances if you need to edit.

ElimuMatch · School Desk

Add a student

Form EM-SRBalances by term

1. Identity on the school register

2. Name helpers may see

One given name. This is the only name on the helper page.

3. Class & gender

Helpers can filter for girls or boys when choosing whom to support.

4. Highlight for helpers

Short, fee-relevant context helpers can trust — not hobbies or personality blurbs.

5. Approved balances

Enter an amount for each term that still has a balance. Leave the others blank.

Helpers see the given name, gender, form, last-term score, highlight, and approved term balances — not surname or admission number.

Balances

Search the register, then open one student to edit term balances. Only one student is editable at a time.

ElimuMatch · School Desk

Paybill configuration

Form EM-FAM-Pesa Paybill

School fee account

Helpers pay this number. The account on the prompt is the admission number, so the message can be matched to this register.

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ElimuMatch Operations

Operations desk

Monitor schools, gifts, and helper activity. Follow up where schools are slow to confirm.

0Awaiting school
0Over 72h
0Confirmed
—Median confirm hours
KES 0Gift volume
0Still enrolled
0Left school
0Open questions

Enrollment figures are school-reported (or logged by ops after a check-in). They do not claim that a gift caused a student to stay.

Trial support hub

Capstone-style attention, progress, school/county rollups, and school-reported enrollment — computed from the live fee ledger. No risk scores or predictions.

Enrollment outcomes

School-reported status: still enrolled, left school, or unknown. Schools update from School Desk; ops can also log after a check-in.

Gift pipeline

Search and open one gift. Rows over 72 hours need a follow-up call.

By school

Gifts, volume, confirm speed, and enrollment per school. Search, then open one school for detail.

System health

Live checks for the shared ledger and M-Pesa bridge ElimuMatch operates.

Checking…

Support inbox

Open one question to reply. Filter open vs answered as the inbox grows.

Field sittings

Record a sitting, then search past notes as the log grows.

Ops tools

Use carefully. Refresh pulls the shared ledger. Reset clears trial students and gifts on the shared store.