This January, we introduced a new sponsorship program, that allows people form all over the word to choose a specific child and support them. Sponsors cover school fees: providing the child with an education, boarding, food and friendship at Mwalimu Anna School. This month, we’re thrilled to celebrate another sponsorship success story. Thanks to Carole, Zawadi can now attend school full time, never worrying out making tuition, or finding her next meal. She can focus on learning, and shaping herself and the world around her towards a brighter future. She knows that people believe in her. And that’s possibly the greatest gift of all!
Kate Thompson is a Ph.d. Candidate in Anthropology at Stony Brook University with degrees in Community, Environment and Development, Anthropology and World Literature from the Pennsylvania State University. She visited Amani in 2011 with the School for Field Studies. There she began a collaboration with Juma to build an international network, aiming to ensure publicity, fundraising and sustainable growth for Amani. Kate has conducted environmental education research as well as arts and literacy programming throughout East Africa, both with Amani and through her affiliation with the Children and Youth Empowerment Centre in Nyeri, Kenya. Her current work is based southeastern Madagascar exploring the ecological, social and economic implications of illegal poaching.
