World Learning congratulates SIT Study Abroad alum Jessica Posner and her friend Kennedy Odede, whose efforts to educate girls in a Kenyan slum has earned them a 2010 Echoing Green Fellowship. Their project beat out those of more than 1,000 applicants for the fellowship, which supports the work of emerging social entrepreneurs who respond to the world’s most pressing challenges.
Posner, a Wesleyan University student and 2007 participant of SIT Study Abroad’s Kenya: Health and Development Program, was so moved by her experiences in Kenya that she teamed up with Odede, a native of Nairobi, to establish the Kibera School for Girls. Now in its second year, the school uses an innovative approach that provides education as well as essential health and economic services to the community, with a special focus on young women and girls.
As Echoing Green Fellows, Posner and Odede will receive up to $90,000 in seed money over the next two years that will allow them to increase school enrollment and improve quality. Watch a video of Posner and Odede discuss the impact of the Kibera School for Girls.
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