http://www.childrenofkibera.org Kibera Slums, School, Education, Orphans, Kenya, AIDS , Conflict, Violence, Hope, Vulnerable Children, Ken Okoth, Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:24:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Jenny Koons, the Associate Director of LitWorld, is in Nairobi for nine days as part of a pilot partnership program between her organization and the Children of Kibera Foundation to bring the latest approaches to teaching reading and writing into practice in Kenya. LitWorld, is a non-profit organization based in ... http://www.childrenofkibera.org/litworld-partnership-to-train-kibera-teachers/ The 21st century has been hailed as the information age. As part of the education of the future workers and leaders of Kenya, the Children of Kibera Foundation has conceived the Kibera Online Project. The goals of this project are to introduce computers and information technology as tools of learning ... http://www.childrenofkibera.org/kibera-online-project-pilot-launched-at-red-rose/ In many countries across the world, the struggle just to survive means getting a good education just is not an option. One group of activists that included Children of Kibera Foundation Members Ken Okoth, Allison Fisk, and Chris Coe, wants to change that and they took their message to ... http://www.childrenofkibera.org/children-of-kibera-friends-lobby-us-congress/ For the children of Kibera, one of the world’s largest slums, the only way out is through education. The Children of Kibera Foundation is dedicated to helping children receive quality education. The Red Rose School is our first, major project. Education in Kenya is technically free for students from nursery age ... http://www.childrenofkibera.org/kenya-trip-2008/ Ken Okoth, 30, who teaches at the Potomac School in McLean, left his home in the slums on the outskirts of Nairobi in 1997 for a scholarship to St. Lawrence University in Upstate New York. He went on to get a master's degree, marry a fellow teacher and settle in ... http://www.childrenofkibera.org/voice-of-innocent-kids-washington-post/ At McLean's Potomac School, a desire for charity has brought students face to face with the harsh realities of politics in the developing world. Last summer, a group of Potomac School students, teachers and parents visited the Red Rose Nursery and Children's Centre in Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya. The group brought gifts ... http://www.childrenofkibera.org/lessons-for-potomac-school/ Ken Okoth grew up in a slum on the outskirts of Kenya's capital, Nairobi. But he found a way out of the cycle of poverty, winning a scholarship to an American university, and going on to become a teacher at a prestigious local high school. He joins Kojo to discuss ... http://www.childrenofkibera.org/local-lessons-from-unrest-in-kenya/ As the killing mounted in Kenya, Ken Okoth spent the last few days making desperate calls to his family in the Kibera slum of Nairobi. Okoth grew up poor in Kibera, but he got out — first to an American university on scholarship, and then to a job teaching history in ... http://www.childrenofkibera.org/npr-a-kenyan-in-the-us/ MCLEAN, Va. (WUSA) -- Ken Okoth escaped the slums of Nairobi for America thanks to hard work, luck and scholarships from St. Lawrence and Georgetown Universities. Advertisement "I lived in a 10 by 10 room and slept on a dirt floor," he recalls. Physically, the 30 year old high school history teacher at ... http://www.childrenofkibera.org/wusa9-children-of-kibera/ We've been trying to find a way into the election violence in Kenya... and it was right here around the corner. Ken Okoth is a history teacher at the Potomac School outside D.C., but he grew up in the huge Nairobi slum of Kibera -- in fact, he's been trying ... http://www.childrenofkibera.org/npr-kenya-in-trouble/