Success At Last!

During our last few days at North Pokot, everything started to fit together like a puzzle. OLPC set up solar panels, brought the laptops, brought a server, and taught the children and teachers how to use them. City Harvest Ministries and United Baptist Church continually work with the children at Asilong primary school throughout the year. We have two interns coming for four months in the fall. SNV (an NGO based out of the Netherlands) donated internet, a printer, and held a two week teacher workshop. At the final Parent Meeting we discussed several topics. We talked about sending more children to school instead of making them tend the cattle. Sophia Yiega, part of SNV, told us that her parents sent her to school and now she bought them a house and several cows, goats, and sheep. Grace from City Harvest said to send your daughters to school. It is time to break the oppression of women. Women should not be slaves to men. Women are just as capable as men if not more! I do not want to force the Pokot to change their traditional ways, however, I do want to educate them and give them all the information they need to make the choice for themselves. I loved the tribal experiences I had. I loved the dancing, the preparation of food, their way of survival. I just want females to be treated with respect. Aretha Franklin knew what she was talking about!
-Sophia