The Parkway Kawelu Project is one of my recent brainstorms. I will be going to Kenya this summer to visit my husband's family. While I am there, I want to do a couple of projects that will benefit the people of Kenya. The Parkway Kawelu Project is one of those projects.
With the help of my husband, I found a primary school in Makindu, Kenya called Kawelu Primary School. I was able to make contact with the head teacher (principal) Kiio Muoki. He has been instrumental in giving me the information that I need to start this project. The help that he has been giving me is not without sacrifice. He goes out of his way to travel quite a distance to a cyber cafe to send me emails with answers to questions that I have. He does not have access to a computer other than the cyber cafe, and Kawelu does not have electricity. My students have been asking lots of questions, so I forward those questions on to him and he answers everyone of them even if some may seem a little strange. Mr. Muoki wants to help educate our students, and the dialogue that he has had with them has be excellent.
The plan is for Parkway to serve Kawelu by doing some fundraising activities to help supply Kawelu with materials that will help improve student achievement. The infrastructure at the school is lacking, and there are not enough readers, books and desks for the students. Parkway and Kawelu are forming a friendship that will help both of the student bodies to learn from each other. This project will not only help the students at Parkway, but it will also benefit the students at Boggy Creek and Ventura Elementary schools. Both of these schools have agreed to assist us in this project, so it will truly be a community effort.
When I go to Kenya this summer, I will take letters from the Parkway students to Kawelu, and when I come back, I will bring letters back from the students of Kawelu and give them to the students at Parkway. We will begin a series of fundraising activities on Monday, March 29, 2010. Our goal is to initially raise a minimum of $3000. That is a lot of money, and the Parkway students are struggling just like the students at Kawelu, but it is on a much different level. We want our students to understand that despite their individual struggles, there is always someone that is struggling more than they are.
I truly believe that this project will bless the lives of all four schools. As we all embark on this project, may we all cherish the journey ahead, and forge strong relationships of friendship and respect.
Rechel
This is awesome. I will try to help. CMay
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ReplyDeleteIt is encouraging to see this website regarding your contribution towards making Kawelu Primary School a better place.
Its beyond appreciation that I can offer because you and your students really have a Godly heart.
May the Almighty God bless you, your family and students at the Parkway Middle School abundantly.
Willy Malile
PERSONAL ASSISTANT TO
HON. PHILIP KALOKI, MP, KIBWEZI.
wmalile@yahoo.com
0722476686
oh gosh Mrs.Nganga looking at these pictures again brings tears to my eyes.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to see the children like that, knowing that a lot of people here in america get mad at what they have when what the children at Kawelu have is worse.
I really wish that i could go to kenya with you. In class can you give me some students name from our project.
I would like to write letters to them. !Veronica martinez! :)
Rechel
ReplyDeleteI am so proud of you. This is such a wonderful way to have your students understand the art of giving especially since they have so much more then the children there in Kenya.
Is there a way that I put this on the OCTA Facebook to see if I can get any other donors? I will be sending you something since I will not be able to attend on the 22nd.
Mrs. Ngaga,
ReplyDeleteI think it's awsome that you are doing this. If I had stayed at Neptune Middle School, I would have never met you and never been able to participate in this AWSOME project. It's great!!! GOOD LUCK!!!!
:) Jacob Zimkiewicz
I THINK THIS IS COOL THAT YOU ARE DOING THIS TO HELP THEM WITH THERE EDUCATION AND YOUR EFFORT IN THIS THEY I KNOW ARE REALLY HAPPY ON THE THINGS AND THE MONEY YOU ARE RAISING SO TAKE A THOUGHT AND REMEMBER FOR YEARS WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO HELP THESE KIDS!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteKALEY N. PERIOD7
I think what were doing is a really good thing. What were doing is going to change somebody's life. I am honored to be a part of this project.
ReplyDeleteCynthia
Hey Mrs.Nganga,
ReplyDeletehey was up ? This is a great project for kawelu.I think this is a big help and its fantastic i will love to join and be part of this. i hope we make a diffrences to kawelu's life! :) lol from k.t. period 6th (the smart one )
Hi Ms Rechel
ReplyDeleteIt is refreshing and so touching to see the picture of a little kid washing a car in support of needy cases in Kawelu, Kenya. The distance and cultural diversity notwithstanding, it is now evident that we are in a global village.
I beg to request you to pass my utmost regards to your students and most particularly, that little one and her/his parents.
Rechel, you are a true blessing to our people. Your heart is larger than life, busy as you are, it humbles me most when I see the kind of pictures you have posted.
The Bible is categorical about giving, that the hand which gives is more blessed than the one that receives.
God Bless.
Malile W.
KIBWEZI, KENYA
I think this is very cool cause is nice to know that you are helping someone and it also make me feel proud of myself
ReplyDeleteThank you for all of the kind words. This is a service project for me, and I am looking forward to helping the children at Kawelu. I will be there in a few weeks and I look forward to seeing them and the teachers at Kawelu. I am truly grateful for the help of my students and faculty at Parkway for helping this idea to become a reality.
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