“Talking With His Feet”
February 6th, 2007 by Progressive Wednesday
As a society we have learned of civil war and genocide that have ravaged such countries as Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan and others. We have been appalled. We have demanded little from our government. We have asked even less of ourselves. But some among us have been “talking with their feet”.
According to the Buffalo News, in the early 1990’s Kenneth Krieger, a school psychologist in Niagara Falls, New York, spent time helping refugees who were relocating to the Western New York area from such countries as Kosovo and the Sudan when he heard of young orphans who had escaped from war ravaged Sierra Leone, the poorest nation in the world. While in the country to pick up his second adopted daughter, Krieger was approached by a young lady asking for money to pay her school fees. Her family wasn’t eating so that she could go to school. He gave her $60. It wasn’t until later that he found out that she was sent to his house by a local prostitute as a favor to the girl. The experience launched him into further action.
“What did Krieger do?” you ask?
Through a charitable organization he helped form, EduNations, Krieger was able to raise the $24,000 it took to build a school to serve some 300 pupils in first through sixth grades. The school opened in September and serves six villages in the central part of the country.
The school also feeds the children and their families one hot meal a day so parent don’t have to go hungry in order for their kids to get an education. The most important thing they learn? How to grow food.
So what’s next for EduNations? They plan to build a secondary school to further the children’s education. The cost is another $24,000. Here’s where you come in. EduNations.org is still under construction so those who want to help should send their donations to:
EduNations Inc.
PO Box 119
Kenmore, NY 14217
We have asked EduNations to make it easier for you to donate and when that happens we’ll bring it to you. So there it is. One man helping to educate six villages in the poorest country on earth. If that’s not progress…
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