In November 2022, Len Morris traveled to Kenya for the first time since the pandemic, to check in with supported students of the Kenyan Schoolhouse program and assess the state of children in Kenya. This is what he found.
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Fourteen-year-old Lesley Achieng, a new student at the Kenyan Schoolhouse program, recently wrote us a letter about her family circumstances and her excitement at being able to go to secondary school. While her adoptive family has been kind to take her in, she misses her siblings and her mom. “It is a fact that I am not a member of this family.”
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When the coronavirus hit Kenya, all schools closed abruptly. Kenyan Schoolhouse kids, from the poorest and most vulnerable of families, were sent home. To help provide emergency food aid, see gofundme.com/f/kenyan-schoolhouse-at-home. Len tells the story of Sylvie and the beginnings of Kenyan Schoolhouse.
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Filming in Kenya in late 2012 we interacted with hundreds of children; at their schools, in their homes and as we crisscrossed the country in our production van. The filming had gone on for weeks and it was depressing to see these bedraggled babies, with their rags and obvious malnutrition. We wished a major charity was in the van, handing out food aid and clean water but we settled on lollipops, thousands and thousands of lollipops.
We'd see a group of children by the side of the road and stop and prepare for a lollipop moment, a way of giving love with no strings attached.
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