At the 2011 Elementary School Heads Association Annual Dinner last week, Laurel had the opportunity to share artifacts from the ESHA trip to Kenya and to tell members about our invitation to our Kenya host, Steven Labarakwe, to visit schools in the Washington, DC, area. Steven is the education officer for the Laisamis District in Northern Kenya. Introduced to us by Joseph Lekuton, Steven was the guide, driver, and mentor for the ESHA group's two-week Kenya stay. As Laurel discussed in last week's post, "Preparing the Manyatta," Steven has agreed to spend two weeks with us in the U.S. to make presentations to students and faculty about the Samburu culture and life in northern Kenya. We look forward, too, to the possibility of including in his visit an evening discussion for school leaders with Steven, where topics of global partnerships and meaningful service learning could be addressed.
Six schools 
have stepped up as hosts for Steven's visit, including: Beauvoir, The National Cathedral Elementary School, Washington, DC; The Calvert School, Baltimore, MD; Green Acres School, Rockville, MD; The Harbor School, Bethesda, MD; Norwood School, Bethesda, MD; and The Woods Academy, Bethesda, MD. We're in the process of scheduling a planning meeting by conference call to consider program possibilities in order to shape the visit to suit the needs of each host school.
Our next immediate step in moving this forward is to support Steven's visa application. Toward that end, I will be poised by the phone tonight, on standby should the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi wish to speak with me. He meets with Embassy officials on Monday at 8:00 a.m. Nairobi time -- 12:00 a.m. in my part of the world.
Our hope is for Steven's visit to take place from April 4-15 of this year. In this two-week stretch, there is room in the schedule for visits to two or three additional ESHA-member schools. Interested? Contact me at info@elementaryschoolheads.org.
have stepped up as hosts for Steven's visit, including: Beauvoir, The National Cathedral Elementary School, Washington, DC; The Calvert School, Baltimore, MD; Green Acres School, Rockville, MD; The Harbor School, Bethesda, MD; Norwood School, Bethesda, MD; and The Woods Academy, Bethesda, MD. We're in the process of scheduling a planning meeting by conference call to consider program possibilities in order to shape the visit to suit the needs of each host school.Our next immediate step in moving this forward is to support Steven's visa application. Toward that end, I will be poised by the phone tonight, on standby should the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi wish to speak with me. He meets with Embassy officials on Monday at 8:00 a.m. Nairobi time -- 12:00 a.m. in my part of the world.
Our hope is for Steven's visit to take place from April 4-15 of this year. In this two-week stretch, there is room in the schedule for visits to two or three additional ESHA-member schools. Interested? Contact me at info@elementaryschoolheads.org.
Claudia
Photos:
Artifacts, ESHA Annual Dinner, 2/23/11 (Tom Shipley)
Steven Labarakwe & two of his children, Ngurunit, Aug. 2010 (Laurel Seid)
Kenya travelers with Steven Labarakwe & Joseph Lekuton, Parliament, Aug. 2010
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