The college’s Early Childhood Club will host a talk by a current student who completed missionary outreach work in southern Africa last summer and a current Albany Academy student who hopes to raise enough funds to start a small school in rural Zambia.
The program, which is open to the campus and the general public, will be 2 p.m., Monday, Oct. 28, in Higbee Hall, room 100.
Hudson Valley Early Childhood student Emily Groff travelled to Africa as part of a youth group and worked with children in preschools and orphanages near Cape Town, South Africa. She will speak about her experiences and her inspiration for taking the trip.
Albany Academy student Steven Strait was inspired to raise funds to build a rural community schoolhouse after spending three weeks in a remote village in Tanzania, living in and repairing a school, and interacting with villagers and their children. Rural community schools serve areas where children would otherwise have to walk several hours to and from a government sponsored public school. He hopes to begin the project in 2015 following graduation. Strait’s father, David, is a University at Albany anthropologist who has worked in Zambia.
Published: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 19:50:42 +0000 by e.bryant