John Kobia
John Kobia has been a driver for the Ol Pejeta Conservancy for over ten years. John speaks six languages including, English, Meru, Swahili, Samburu, Turkana and Kikuyu. He has taken us on dozens of […]
Tigithi Secondary Graduate Arrives in Canada
After many months of preparation, including multiple letters of support from Langley School District teachers, superintendents, PA-MOJA directors, and community leaders from Kenya and Canada, James Muraguri, a Form 4 graduate from Tigithi Secondary, finally […]
Windermere High School sings for Mwituria
Windermere High Sschool students, under the direction of music teacher, Andrea Lee, honored Mwituria students by featuring Kenyan songs at their recent choir night and dedicating the concert to their sister school.
PA-MOJA volunteer, Leigh Vierstra, in the news.
Leigh Vierstra, a teacher from Madison East High School and PA-MOJA volunteer, was awarded the ‘Topnotch Teacher’ award from a local TV station for taking 12 students from her high school to Kenya. Leigh and […]
Thome Boys say hello to Carbonear and GAMP
The team at PA-MOJA is excited to welcome our new sister school, Carbonear Collegiate. Carbonear is our first sister school in Newfoundland and will join GAMP Academic Music School in Philadelphia, becoming a second sister […]
PA-MOJA Volunteer Shares Photos of a Summer in Kenya
Here are a selection photographs taken by PA-MOJA volunteers, Lon Smith and Suzanne Fengler, during their visit to Kenya in the summer of 2014. BIRDS: MAMMALS: PEOPLE AND COUNTRYSIDE:
PA-MOJA Building a Dormitory in 2015
Keeping Samburu girls in school counts for far more than getting good grades at the highly competitive and feted national examinations. To afford them residential accommodation at school significantly shields them from dangers of […]
Mwituria and Windermere Connect
PA-MOJA Director, Heather Hall, visited Windermere Secondary’s sister school, Mwituria in July, 2014. Heather shared a video of Windermere students singing “Lean on Me” then successfully taught the Kenyan students to sing the song. Later, […]
Ereri Primary Students Know How to Have Fun
Moses Muthoki, Deputy Manager of Community Education for the Ol Pejeta Conservancy, took the time to capture this footage of Ereri Primary students taking advanrage of the recent rains.
Kenya’s Got Talent
Robert Morijoh is an 18 year old Massai student in Grade 8. The Uaso-Nyiro Primary student impressed the summer volunteers with his musical skills. Robert is playing a hand-made Massai guitar which he practices at […]
Students at Langley Fine Arts Answer Questions
Langley Fine Arts School students in the PA-MOJA club were asked to answer the same questions at the bursary students in Kenya. See Bursary students answer the same questions here. WHAT IS YOUR NAME AND […]
Burnaby South Presents their Year End Carnival
PA-MOJA Director, Heather Hall, spent the day at Burnaby South filming the annual Year End Carnival. Students at Burnaby South wanted to share the day with their sister school, Endana Secondary.
Thome Boys Celebrate Top District School in the Country
The boys at Thome Secondary have a reaon to celebrate. In 2013, the school emerged as the top District school in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education countrywide. Thome Secondary was started in 2010. Only […]
Tharua Secondary and Lake of Two Mountains Skype
On 30th May, 2014, Lake of Two Mountains High School in Quebec had the opportunity to speak to and see the students at their sister school, Thaura Secondary School, in Kenya. For both schools this […]
Global Village Market 2014
Canadian sister school, Langley Fine Arts School recently hosted the second annual Global Village market. Thousands of items, including books, clothing and children’s toys were sold at the market. Multiple vendors also sold their goods. […]
Never too Old to Make a Difference
PA-MOJA director, Heather Hall, met with 89 year old quilt-maker, Jean Callarec, who sews quilts that are taken to Kenya by PA-MOJA volunteers every summer. During a visit to Kenya, Jean realized that the temperature at […]