By Natalie Finstad | Executive Director and Co-Founder
Last weekend the Ngong Community sent 17 people to a Community Organizing Training at the Tatua Offices. The attendees were Leadership Team Members and members of their Young Adult Volunteers. At the training the leaders learned how to tell their story and they spent time creating a strategy for how they were going to address the issue of getting kids back into school.
One of my favorite moments was when Kinya, a Massai Leader and member of the Leadership Team got up to describe the team's goal. They had decided that they would be able to get 1,200 kids back in school by the middle of 2014. A lot of other teams at the training thought their goal was too big but Kinya described how he had been doing this before and he knew that the work would be possible. It was so fun to watch Kinya's passion rise as he talked about how important it was to get kids back to school and what hope he saw in this project.
Ken and I just talked on the phone and he told me that their work is progressing - the Ngong team has been meeting and is planning a training for the team members to learn how to do 1:1's in the community and recruit parents to be part of their task force that identifies kids who aren't in school and helps get them into classrooms.
Here is a video of Juliana, one of the Ngong Team Members, talking about how the work is progressing and why she is excited about Tatua.
Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSEkMib7vsI
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