By Oliver Barry | President
Being Emmanuel’s mentor these last few years has been an incredible experience. I call him “my little gentleman” because he is always so courteous. I run a Not for Profit School on our farm, focused in teaching literacy to the grassroots children that have had a poor educational foundation in our community. Many of our students look up to Emmanuel and he is such an inspiration to them. They want to work hard and do as well as him in school, so they really enjoy his visits.
His eagerness to learn has made it easy to involve him in many of our family’s extracurricular activities, one of which was becoming a trained Climate Justice Ambassador for an international youth-led environmental organisation called PLANTFOR-THE-PLANET.
This organisation is a global network of young environmental activists that take action against the effects of climate change in a variety of ways one way is by training other ambassadors to join in and do the same. In December 2016, First Quantum Mines invited us to travel to Kalumbila (Solwezi West) for 4 days where Emmanuel and former KF Scholar Jessy Njungu had the opportunity to train over 110 new ambassadors and plant 220 trees at 2 Educore Schools, Sentinel and Nkisu. The students there were extremely impressed by their confidence and passion; many vowed to follow in their footsteps. I am confident that Emmanuel will continue to make me a very proud mentor.
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