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Kibera Girls Soccer Academy
Nairobi, Kenya
March 25, 2011
Ryan Sarafolean was recently awarded the Forward Under 40 Award from the University of Wisconsin for the work he is doing with the Kibera Girls Soccer Academy. Read more about
March 25, 2011
Jake Naughton, our Media Director, recently put together this footage on his most recent visit to Kenya in honor of World Water Day. Check it out! http://vimeo.com/21217236
Kibera Girls Soccer Academy, by Lynn Seru
May 16, 2012
THE FEELING OF BEING IN LOVE:BY LYNN SERU: I told you to teach me,To teach me to say it, I now know how to say it,‘I love you, I love you too, I miss you,’Your eyes look at me in a different way,Giving me the assurance that I am the only one, youYou gave me a kiss that sent chills down my spine,I can’t forget,We are left in a world of our own,Everything has vanished,We have nothing to loose,We promised each other that we would always be,Together,Forever,Like a magnet, I am attracted,To your voice, scent and sweetness,I am addicted to you.I can’t do anything without you,I wish for the day that I will stand at the alterAnd say my ‘I DO’s’You taught me how to say...
Life comes quickly
Kibera Girls Soccer Academy, by Jake Naughton
May 10, 2011
I suppose I'll begin by saying let my experience be instructive to all of you potential Omprakash volunteers.I left for Kenya on my Omprakash volunteer grant 12/26/09. I shot photos and videos pretty intensively for 3 weeks and left with around 20 hours of video, which is a lot of footage, and around 1000 photos.Immediately upon my return, I began my final semester of my senior year of college– my thesis was due in 4 months, I was taking a few capstone classes, and I was also working full time as a freelance photographer shooting for a number of local publications. I drastically under-estimated the time I'd have available to begin going through all of this material and shape it into something Omprakash and it's partners could use. Here we are...
Sept 18, 2009: KGSA: Sack Gardens are GROWING!
Kibera Girls Soccer Academy, by Steph Dawes
January 27, 2011
Rafiki, Nina habari poa! ( I have cool news!)Wow, with all that has happened with EFF it is hard to believe that I have had that much time to spend with Kibera Girls Soccer Academy,right? WRONG. During August, one of my most saving graces were my twice a week trips out to KGSA to continue planning the sack garden project and spend time with the teachers and students that so encourage and support me. During this time as well, the funding came through for the sack garden project (Thanks to EFF’s own Courtney, let’s give her a round of applause ::clap clap::) So, with that, the project began. The first step, of course was to get the well digging under way. See, when we were putting together the initial budget, we...
July 8, 2009: KGSA - Sack Gardens
Kibera Girls Soccer Academy, by Steph Dawes
January 27, 2011
Jambo Rafiki Zangu,Two posts ago, I wrote a message about KGSA that mentioned how they recently lost their feeding program. As of that post, almost two weeks have passed and Kibera Girl's School is feeding their girl's off the last installment from Vision Africa and donations from friends of the school. Also, since that two week period, I have started volunteering at KGSA twice a week on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, after I finish my language classes in Kilimani (very close to Yaya, the area where I lived for my first month here.) While volunteering I have helped with a variety of projects, from teaching a Form 2 (Sophomore) Biology class to typing exams and I guess, just learning about what secondary education is really like in Kenya. Turns out that going...
June 26, 2009: Kibera Girls Soccer Academy: Feeding Program Assistance Needed
Kibera Girls Soccer Academy, by Steph Dawes
January 27, 2011
Note: This is an old entry. KGSA has since developed a dependable program - SdHello All, Below is an experience I had earlier in the week (Tuesday afternoon) visiting Kibera Girls' Soccer Academy, a grassroots, privately funded, free secondary school in the Kibera Slums- the largest slum in East Africa. I hope to start volunteering there once a week (in my free time, haha), because it is an inspirational project...but more important and distressing is that it just lost its feeding program (on Tuesday) due to the economic crisis in the UK. So, below is the story, but the real question is part of the last paragraph- what do you know about financial resources, organizations, or otherwise that we could apply to to help feed over 150 students, faculty and community...
The Global Journal Project Connects Three Schools
Kibera Girls Soccer Academy, by Steve Le
November 03, 2010
Want to connect your school community to two other schools? You can learn about how people in different places live their lives and view the world around them. The Global Journal Project is a way for three schools to form a partnership that enables mutual learning. Read further for more details. Also, check out the sample flyer produced by the first chapter of the GJP, a collaboration between two U.S. schools and Kibera Girls Soccer Academy. You can view the flyer on the Classroom Resources page. If you are an Omprakash Partner and would like to join the GJP, please contact me or one of the Omprakash administrators. The Global Journal Project: The Global Journal Project is a three-school collaboration and a student-run business under the umbrella of Omprakash, a U.S.-registered nonprofit. The model...
Reflection
Kibera Girls Soccer Academy, by Caroline Sheahan
September 21, 2010
One month ago, I came home. Or, to put it more precisely, I substituted a newly acquired home with my old one. I can vividly remembering sitting nervously in my host family’s living room, waiting for my host mother to come home from work. This was to be our first moment of contact, and I started to worry about stupid things: Did I bring too many bags? Did I bring a sufficient gift? Do I look presentable? No more than twenty minutes after I had arrived in her home, my host mother came in through the front door (a door that, because of its squeak, its strange handle, and its lock, that was many times left undone for me when I’d arrive home late at night, has become one of...
First (of many) KGSA video update
Kibera Girls Soccer Academy, by Jake Naughton
July 12, 2010
This is a short video I put together pretty quickly for a video challenge that I did not win (oh well). BUT it helped me learn Final Cut and I am now using those skills to edit together MUCH better videos about this incredible school!Look for more stories and video updates to come.
Leaving in two weeks
Kibera Girls Soccer Academy, by Caroline Sheahan
May 21, 2010
Hello,I'm leaving for Kenya in two weeks, to go work at Kibera Girls Soccer Academy for three months, until the end of summer. I cannot even express just how excited I am to go. I just received a Flip video camera to bring over there, and I'm hoping to video the girls, so that we can upload some videos on here, and on their school's blog. As great as it is to hear about all their stories, I think it'll be incredible to show their stories too- the moving image is very powerful.I believe that we can all be empowered with a video camera- and that it's a great way to show each other how we live and who we are. It would be absolutely incredible, if one day, classrooms...