An interview with Margaret Chao, the librarian at Mocha Club project, New Dawn Education Center in Huruma, a slum community outside Nairobi, Kenya. Margaret spends her day encouraging the educational development of New Dawn students. “I really want to pass my sincere gratitude to Mocha Club & African Leadership, together with the other donors,… Read more »
Today, we are celebrating Earth Day by spotlighting the sustainability of one of our favorite projects, the New Dawn High School in Kenya. On August 10, 2012, New Dawn celebrated the inauguration of a new three story Educational Learning Centre that provides the students with a library, a computer lab, a chemistry/physics lab, and a… Read more »
On a recent trip to Kenya, we had the opportunity to introduce Worldreader (a partnering organization that gives people in the developing world access to digital books) to the teachers and students of New Dawn Education Center. Together, our organizations were able to provide 60 e-readers to students and staff, each loaded with 100 books that… Read more »
{Photo courtest of: Alexandre Dulaunoy/Flickr} In Namibia, the average ratio of textbooks at primary schools was one textbook per three students. Some schools had as little as one textbook per twenty students. By the end of this year, however, the ratio of textbooks will be one per student. This is a result of the recent… Read more »
Due to poverty and lack of proper schooling facilities, Africa is home to 43% of the world’s out of school children. Thanks to your help over the last 12 months, we were able to make a difference by completing the construction of a brand new Resource Centre, made from recycled shipping containers, at the New… Read more »
