We struck water!!!
BUCKETS OF LOVE AND HOPE are being brought up every day by the students, teachers and local villagers around the Utini primary School. The first water well of William B. Ward Elementary School is real!
Tuesday, March 31 was Agnes Ndetei’s birthday, and when I called her that morning, [...]

The CTAUN “Best Practices” Award is given to the teacher who brought back something she/he learned about the United Nations from a CTAUN conference, taught it to the students and teachers and did some good with it.
On Friday Jan. 30,  at the conference for teachers called (CTAUN) Committee on Teaching About the United Nations, Ms. [...]

The new year is upon us and the students at Ward Elementary have taken off without me.
The 55 member student council, moderated by our Asst. prin.  John Fogliano,  has not only re-adopted Wells of Love and Hope for their Peace Project this year but the incoming Student Council president, Sammy Stone, ran his campaign on [...]

The wells of Love and Hope Peace Project never stopped for me.
When we had our African Cook Out on June 21st, it was just a segue into my plans for my trip to Kenya in August, especially since half my trip had just been funded by a very generous parent!
I spoke to Agnes, Anele, and [...]

How can we effect global warming?
22 members of the Ward School community have jumped on board to plant mango seedlings in Kenya. Planting trees in the deforested areas of the world like Kibwezi in Kenya, Africa can slowly but surely reestablish some balance in the ecology in the local area and the world.
8 year old [...]

Just in today, our first “Letters from Kenya” delivery.
When I got to school this morning and looked in my mail box.  There was this brown thick envelope with stamps all over it!  It looked like it had traveled half way around the world…it had!
It was our 1st International Peace Pal package!
When I was In Kenya [...]

Wells of Love and Hope was born of a conversation between myself and my friend, Dr. Anele Heiges, President of NGO UN International Public Policy Institute. She was telling me about a remarkable woman in Kenya, Africa, and all this woman is doing to help her people, her country and her continent. The more she [...]