Report from Monday March 2, 2020
The team made it safely to the Thiiri Center in Meru,
Kenya where we joined several other University of Michigan teams working in the
area. There is a team from the Dental School with 18 students. The
Pharmacy School team has 7 students and the Engineering School has 7. It
almost disloyal not to be decked out in Gold and Blue. Think of this as
sort of a mini-Ann Arbor doing good on the far side of the world.
Our team continues to focus on supporting education at
the BLISS Secondary School and the Gichunge Primary. Today we worked at
both locations. The morning was spent at the High School where Greg
Hulbert addressed the student body. He compared sharing the gift of knowledge
with a child’s rubber duckie. Both bring joy and uplift both the giver
and the receiver. He then presented Moses, the School Principal
with a rubber duckie. The 600+ students broke out in laughter bringing
home his point.
The afternoon was spent at Gichunge Primary.
There were lots of high-fives with the kids and hugs with the staff. Their Eighth-Grade class had the highest exam scores for any non-boarding
primary in the entire Meru County on their November end-of-year exams.
This is an amazing achievement for a school that still only has
electricity in one small administrative building, no consistent water supply
and kids from families that have even less. Can’t wait to share all the
stories that will come from our work with them this week.
- Kathy Macdonald
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| Gichunge students counting/sorting bottle lids; Greg inside the new BLISS Hall; Moses, Greg & the rubber duckie |
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