The History of PA-MOJA.
In 1995, while at the Jane Goodall chimpanzee orphanage in Burundi, Gillian La Prairie was researching for her PhD thesis. Burundi was experiencing […]
A Letter from a Young Fundraiser
Hi. My name is Esther and I am going to tell you an amazing story about how my friends and I have made a difference in this world. It all started when the organization Free […]
Windermere Students Connect to Mwituria
Sixty students at Windemere Secondary who belong to Ms. Lee ‘s 9/10 choir and the UNICEF club have decided that writing letters to their sister school, Mwituria, is something they want to pursue. Heather Hall, […]
Interview with Richard Vigne, CEO of the Ol Pejeta Conservancy
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfM5T_SZTvE] PA-MOJA volunteer, Heather Hall, interviews Mr. Richard Vigne, CEO of the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya.
PA-MOJA Supports Healthy Learning Environments
PA-MOJA supports healthy learning environments which has a broad and far-reaching effect. Helping kids stay in school is the best thing we can do for people and our earth.
There’s a Lot Happening at Lake of Two Mountains High School
For the last three school years students at all levels at Lake of Two Mountains High School have been supporting and collaborating with Thaura Secondary School in Laikipia Kenya. From 8:00 p.m. on November 22 […]
PA-MOJA Buys Kenyan Products – Christmas Video
In the summer of 2013, kids at a children’s home in Kenya asked our volunteers how they could help PA-MOJA. Pretty soon, hundreds of kids were making braided strings that would be used to hold […]
Last Chance to Survive
We live in absurd times. Here is a bit of hard evidence: Seven Northern White rhinos remain on this earth; not one lives in the wild. Four live here at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in […]
Mwituria Students say Hello to Windermere
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jtktk7gSUs] Mwituria Secondary school is now a sister school with Windermere Secondary School in North Vancouver, B.C. Canada. School principal Muchemi, came to this school back in 2011, when there were only 50 students. “The […]
PA-MOJA Booth at Global Education Conference
Three enthusiastic PA-MOJA volunteers, Heather Hall, Sheridan Tochkins, and Amber Illes, manned a booth at the Global Education conference at Fraser Heights Secondary School in Surrey to spread the word about PA-MOJA. Nearly 200 teachers […]
Mwituria Secondary School Students Sing for Windermere
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PA-MOJA Volunteer Leigh Vierstra works with her Sister School
New PA-MOJA volunteer, Leigh Vierstra, from Madison, Wisconsin, created this video by combining footage she took of her students at Madison East High School and students at her sister school, Malek Girls’ school. Leigh returned […]
Cheetah eats Impala on the Ol Pejeta Conservancy
PA-MOJA volunteers, Alison Stuart, Silvia Knittel, Betty Kiddell and Leigh Vierstra witnessed and filmed a cheetah bring down and eat a pregnant impala. In the six years PA-MOJA volunteers have visited Kenya, this is the […]
Kenyans Teach North Americans to Recycle
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN8_Du0adCQ] PA-MOJA believes that Kenyans have a wealth of knowledge to share with the rest of the world. Watch as a group of Kenyan students teach their North American friends how to make a ball […]
PA-MOJA Crew Make Perogies for Kenya
A group of Vancouver PA-MOJA supporters spent a Saturday afternoon rolling dough and folding pasta rounds to make traditional perogies for an upcoming fundraiser. Toni Hourston, who is heading to Kenya in July for her […]
Two Canadian Sister Schools Meet
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umx5_NErY3A] Students from the Abbotsford School of Integrated Arts arrived at Langley Fine Arts School on Friday, April 26 to share their message of
Langley Fine Arts Clothing Sale Huge Success
It took a determined LFAS mom, a good friend from Ontario, and a whole team of family, friends, staff and students to create a clothing sale that turned the LFAS gymnasium into a shopping mall […]
VOLUNTEERING IN KENYA
If you are interested in volunteering in Kenya for PA-MOJA, please watch the videos below first. This will give you an idea of the scope of our work. Group leaders stay in Kenya from July […]
PA-MOJA Uses Skilled Kenyan Workers on All Projects
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xOoJeIiJXY] In the summer of 2012, the PA-MOJA team was able to watch and document the entire construction process of a PA-MOJA funded classroom being built at Sweetwaters Primary School. PA-MOJA uses Kenyan labour exclusively […]
Cultural Exchanges Break Down Stereotypes
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpH7y3G1miQ] PA-MOJA encourages cultural exchanges between sister schools in North America and Kenya. Heritage Woods in Coquitlam, BC, held a 30 hour famine and auction to raise funds and create awareness about the project. Students […]
“Jambo” – by Langley Fine Arts School Choir – 2012
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PA-MOJA Buys another Cow
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4yQbEDc4SU] PA-MOJA volunteers spend a day meeting people and bargaining in order to buy another cow.
Kids from the Nanyuki Children’s Home Sing Blackbird
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxSrhelLaXE] Lucy Clarkson, Toni Hourston, Lorna Richards and Emily Brimacombe, volunteers at the Nanyuki Children’s Home, teach the kids to sing ‘Blackbird’.