‘Butterfly Effect’ is PA-MOJA’s online sharing site where students in Canada and Kenya post all phases of their projects online and collaborate to support each other’s learning. We have recently enlisted the help of professional mentors […]
PA-MOJA has taken a significant step forward in its cultural exchange program. Because PA-MOJA believes that students in Kenya and North America can learn a great deal from each other through collaboration, PA-MOJA president, […]
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 […]
In February 2015, James Muraguri and Brian Mwangi came up with an idea for an ‘Automated Solar Switch’ as their inquiry project for the Butterfly Effect website, a cross-curricular learning site where students guide their […]
Michele Ried, principal of Mary Hill Elementary School and Nicole Elliot, the school’s leadership teacher, learned about PA-MOJA and felt that having a sister school would be an excellent opportunity for the Mary Hill students […]
Students at Heritage Woods Secondary school wanted to learn more about the specifics of life at their sister school in Kenya, Tigithi Secondary, so they decided to start a ‘Question and Answer’ exchange. This first […]
The Rebel Famine, an annual fundraising event at Burnaby South Secondary school, was a success again in 2015. The student government organized the event to raise awareness to local and global issues of food scarcity […]
During the summer of 2014, the PA-MOJA team from North America visited both Endana Primary and Secondary schools to share cultural exchange materials from their North American sister schools. Spring Creek Community school in Whistler, […]
Ol Pejeta Conservancy works hard to make sure that the community surrounding the conservancy is not in conflict with the wildlife in the neighbouring conservancy. Sirima, an area located on the conservancy’s south-west, isn’t densely […]
A group of Kenyan students from Tigithi Secondary and Loise Girls School used technology to help their Canadian sister school classmates understand the Mau Mau Rebellion that took place in Kenya between 1952 and 1960. […]
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:
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 […]
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, […]
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.
A team of PA-MOJA volunteers visited Sweetwaters Primary school in the summer of 2014 to share cultural exchange ideas prepared by students at Heritage Mountain elementary school. The following videos illustrate the positive relationship that […]
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 […]
More than three hundred and thirty primary students were seated at 16 desks arranged in a large quadrangle in the Ereri Primary Schoolyard when the PA-MOJA matatu pulled into the yard. The students, who were […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]