Posted in Daraja Academy on Mar 30th, 2009 1 Comment »
I had a hard time wiping the smile off my face as I watched the video below. The smile remained there even after the fifth viewing. I hate to sound repetitive, but I am so amazed and proud of all the work that has gone into the Daraja Academy. While this video may be emotional [...]
Posted in Community, Daraja Academy, Networking, RSS, Twitter on Mar 16th, 2009 1 Comment »
The more we begin to use tools like Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites as part of our regular means of conversation, communication, and connection the more creative uses for these tools each of us will find for reaching out and connecting to more and more people. Below is a brief example of something [...]
Posted in Daraja Academy on Feb 28th, 2009 1 Comment »
There is not much I need and/or want to write here about my latest video, that I haven’t said before. I hope that it inspires people to take action and join the Daraja cause. I hope you share it, embed it, and bring more and more people to this amazing school.
I hope that this video [...]
Posted in Daraja Academy on Dec 18th, 2008 No Comments »
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A Kenyan boy screams as he sees Kenyan policeman with a baton approach the door of his home in the Kibera slum of Nairobi 17 January 2008. Hundreds of police who had earlier clashed with supporters of Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga at the entrance of the slum moved into the shantytown and [...]
Posted in Daraja Academy on Aug 19th, 2008 No Comments »
Back in March I wrote a post about my friend Jason Doherty’s work opening a school for girls in Kenya called The Daraja Academy. The school and the project are currently gaining some momentum, so I have called on the readers and members of the Intrepid Classroom to support the project. I will let you [...]
Posted in Daraja Academy, Philosophy, education on Mar 31st, 2008 7 Comments »
I am reading a book called Three Cups of Tea, by David Oliver Relin about a man named Greg Mortenson, who after failing to summit K2 stumbles into a small village in Northern Pakistan called Korphe and promises to build the people of the village a school. Reading this book coupled with my friend Jason’s [...]
Posted in Daraja Academy, education on Mar 30th, 2008 2 Comments »
I do now want to write about how I met Jason Doherty, or the months we spent in his hospital room while his shattered body mended from a car crash I should have been involved with, but due to my nine lives, I missed. I won’t mention how I rescued him from yet another car [...]
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