Photo from Heidi Totten, who is spearheading a campaign to get desks for schools like this one in Kenya:
Tenkees School, in the Mau region of Kenya. Photo by Heidi Totten
Ms. Totten, working with a group called 100 Humanitarians (Entrepreneurs Changing the World), posted this in November, for a November 27 fundraising project.
Our next $5 Friday Fundraiser will be for additional desks for this school in the Mau region of Kenya. This is a very remote area that we visited. The school serves over 300 students with very few desks that they cram into.
They also have two latrines for each gender. With 300 kids you can imagine the sanitary conditions.
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Our hope is to start with adding more desks, then rebuilding the kitchen and adding latrines. Just $5 can go far!
Please feel free to click over to this group and contribute.
How well would you or your kids learn in this school?
More:
- More photos from the Tenkees School in Kenya
- Going to school in Palestine
- Classroom in Gaza
- Afghanistan classroom
- Living Classroom in the American Northwest (Now the Taproot School)
- How kids get to school in New Delhi
- Indian School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1903
- More students in Afghanistan, in somewhat better-equipped schools
- Classroom in Edgewood ISD, San Antonio, Texas
- Amusing Planet story on kids risking their lives to get to school
- Doing homework in the streets of Manila, Philippines
- Colorado rural school, built 1895
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