New Scholars’ Mentor Talks About His Excitement For The Organization
New Scholars’ Leadership Camp - A Glimpse
Thank you everyone that made the New Scholars’ leadership training a great success this December, 2009, especially Lyndsay Holley & Nick Handler who so graciously opened their house to us for three weeks and Silvia Battilana & Jesse Czelusta who helped us with training sessions.
Below is a taste, with more to follow in the coming weeks:
An Example of Youthful Initiative in Africa
Just came across this video of William Kamkwamba and needed to share, for William is a perfect example of the initiative that New Scholars aims to support. Take a look:
New Scholars’ Founders Meet Valentino
Valentino Meets New Scholars' Founders
This past Monday Garang and I had the honor to sit with Greg Larson, associate director of the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation (VAD), as a follow up to our introduction late last April to Valentino -the Lost Boy immortalized in Dave Egger’s “What is the What“, which was just recommended by President Obama himself.
We want to thank Greg for taking the time a few days before his trip back to Sudan, and express our excitement towards Valentino and his support for New Scholars.
New Scholar, Agau Majak
He is writing a letter of appreciation to peers at Bentley High School in Lafayette, California. Through a student club, the Bay-Sudan Connection, students at Bentley raised scholarship funds to send Agau and five other Sudanese refugees to two top-secondary schools in Kenya.
Computer Lab
Computers at our partner schools in Kenya are not connected to the internet. We are working to bring satellite internet to Lodwar Boys & Turkana Girls
