A great story that touches close to home for myself and other students traveling to the Kariobangi Kenya:
Retired Ottawa teacher sets out on a BIG mission to empower youth through education. Teacher, David Hall seeks to help orphans and children of single parents in Kibera (perhaps one of the largest slums in Africa which too lies just outside of Nariobi (similar to Kariobangi)) as he plans to build/expand a local school in the area.
This project is scheduled for development for 2012!! Coming up soon!
Its great to see that we have a strong and invested Canadian connection to helping people in this deserving area of Africa.
of course there is a great deal of unknown important entities which will effect the success of this project and the applause which I am able to give David, such as how he chooses to run the school and how true he stays to the culture of the area... But assuming all things are done fair and just I am happy to see the dedication of ones energy, time and resources to such a cause :)
Check out the article from Ottawa's citizen at http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/Building+classrooms+hope+Kenya/4388838/story.html
I read a lot about Kiberia in preparing for my blog that will be posted Tuesday March 8th morning. Such interesting stuff and really amazing what this teacher is doing and that the joy of education has carried on with him throughout his career. I really enjoyed reading your blog and the link as hopefully I will be a future teacher.
ReplyDelete-Sebastien :)