Word: teach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, volunteers seem engaged in a more intimate struggle, World Teach leaders...
Volunteering students pay World Teach $3,100 for airfare and administrative costs to teach in Kenyan schools five hours a day for one year. Though most volunteers have no formal teaching experience, they work in community schools, called "Harambee," each of which can serve anywhere from 10 to 500 students. As many as 200 can pass through a single teacher's classroom...
...fantastic experience," says Elizabeth Oye, former field staffer. Stationed in Kisumu, a town in Western Kenya near Lake Victoria, Oye worked to keep church groups directing the harambee schools in touch with World Teach, completing paperwork for American volunteers and training new teachers...
...such limitations ultimately amount to little more than inconveniences, teachers say. Brown says her year ultimately taught her more than how to teach in a classroom. "I enjoyed being stripped down to my basic personality and my basic attitudes...[without] those pressures which make people act in a certain way. What you wear and say and look like didn't matter there," she says...
...World Teach, having sent nearly 200 teachers to Kenya in two years, Rosen claims a share of success. "We're doing very well overall," she says. So much so that World Teach expanded this year to include missions in China, and soon in Botswana...