By Valerie Hess | Community Manager, VPIA
Meet Judith, mother of 1, foster mother of 8, primary school teacher and Virtues Project Facilitator. Judith teaches at Mywienga Primary School, a school with 516 students, 200 of them orphans.
I met Judith this past February while visiting Kenya to attend The Virtues Project Global Menorship being held in Kakamega. Judith shared about her experiences with The Virtues Project: how it changed her life, made her a gentler person, a kinder teacher and a more loving parent. She arranged for us to visit her school where she has been infusing the Five Strategies of The Virtues Project through conversations, stories and songs for the past 9 years. Parents are now learning about virtues at the school too and this is changing how they parent for the better! Caning has stopped at school and is stopping in homes.
I asked Judith, "What does your school need?" and Judith shared that their most important need is water. The well at the nearby church is no longer viable requiring students to now leave school during the day for 30 minutes, run .5 kilometres to fetch water and bring it back for the school. The only option they have for water at the school is to install water tanks to catch the rain water.
We vowed to raise the money to bring water, virtues materials and other needed supplies to this amazing school. In exchange, Judith promised to keep teaching the virtues to the children and their families and to stay in touch, sharing her stories. Judith has made good on her promise sharing pictures, videos and stories over the past two months and now it is time for us to begin to make good on our promise to her...
Thanks to your charitable contributions, to this project and our parent project on GlobalGiving, we are happy to announce that the first of three water tanks has been funded and will be installed at the Mywienga Primary School in June of 2017. We will post pictures once the first tank goes up! We are also gathering virtues materials that will arrive in August.
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