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[Matthew Norton]

2 years ago my wife and I were in Kenya and Tanzania and were really impacted by the children over there. We were told to take pencils with us as pencils help aid in a child going to school. Seeing a childs face when we handed over a pencil was incredible (one child even stood with his head bowed in front of my wife when she handed over 2 pencils). When we came back i was determined to help education in Africa (and not through giving money to a charity - i wanted to give what i knew worked directly to the people i knew needed it). I managed to get in contact with a school on the brink of closure and started supplying them directly with school supplies. That school has had a tough year where the school has blown down as well as the majority of the people being driven from the village in drought. However, the schol has still prospered and has grown to 40 students (the max that the school can hold). The current school can only hold this amount, but it is incredibly uncomfortable and unsafe being made of tin (imagine being taught in a tin school in temperatures of 40 degrees). The school however has the potential for 400 children, as well as around 1000 adults that have never been educated. I am therefore passionate about building a new school in this area, which we have support of in the region. This is hopefully the start of many years work where we hope to build several schools throughout Africa in the most needed areas.
To do this I am working with the charity 'Maasai Heritage Preservation Foundation' (with whom the Maasai Cultural Ambassador is co-founder) in raising funds for education in Africa. Our goal is to provide extensive education to those who do not have education because the region cannot afford the school, or to areas that are so remote from schools that education is an impossibility. Delete Comment