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.
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“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 the Potomac School in McLean, Virginia, is 8,000 miles away from that dirt floor in a Nairobi slum, but he never left in mind or spirit. For the past three years, he has worked with the students, parents and faculty at his school to raise money for the Red Rose Nursery and Children’s Center located in Kibera, one of the worst slums in Nairobi.

Thanks to the efforts of elementary, middle and high school students and their families, students at the Red Rose have a new classroom and 90 students have “uniforms, books, food and hope,” says Okoth…

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