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Working with the Baltimore schools, Abell came up with an innovative solution: send some of the class cutups and brawlers 6,000 miles away to a school the foundation dubbed Baraka--Swahili for "blessing." So far, the program has accommodated only about 40 students a year, less than 1% of the middle school enrollment--not nearly enough to achieve the classroom tranquillity in Baltimore that was the initial goal. But in its four years, Baraka has delivered an unexpected bonus. It has turned around the lives of most of the students who have gone there. Many of them, like Brandon...
...Working with the Baltimore schools, Abell came up with an innovative solution: send some of the class cutups and brawlers 6,000 miles away to a school the foundation dubbed Baraka - Swahili for "blessing." So far, the program has accommodated only about 40 students a year, less than 1% of the middle school enrollment - not nearly enough to achieve the classroom tranquillity in Baltimore that was the initial goal. But in its four years, Baraka has delivered an unexpected bonus. It has turned around the lives of most of the students who have gone there. Many of them, like Brandon...
...Foster: I liked the 70s, but not because of what was happening globally so much as what was happening in my own life--graduate school, followed by research in Kenya on Swahili storytelling...
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...Flick a peek to one side and catch a pair of two-ton white rhinos who seem to have sleepy-mean eyes to butt the tram (hatari!). And don't miss the gawky East African crowned cranes off to the right. The driver turns on a radio, a sweet Swahili tune (Hapa Dunianai by the Voices of Celebration) wafts through the air, and the cranes turn into an impromptu chorus line, stepping gracefully to the music...