As many of you know, this past February Daraja had a highly successful talent show. When the Form 1’s arrived, they heard all about it and were eager to show off their own talents. They persuaded the administration to throw another one and last weekend volunteers Matt Orcutt and Sarah Montgomery helped put together the show. The result? Poems, dances, singing and skits- these girls proved they could do it all!
Rosalia, Form 1, shared a poem with the audience entitled “Why Education is Important to a Kenyan Girl”. For a small girl, she had big opinions. Her confidence and conviction shined through as she spoke. To check out the video of her performance, click here.
It is definitely worth watching the video to see her perform but if you can’t, we have a transcript of the video available below:
“Why Education is Important to a Kenyan Girl”
by Rosalia, Form 1
Why is education important to a Kenyan girl?
Because we have to educate the Kenyan girls.
If it were not the Kenyan girls,
we would not be here.
We should thank all the administration
for taking care of us.
Other girls who are at home are not educated.
If it were not Mother Karua…
If Mother Karua was not there..
Could we have politician women?
Could we have educated women?
We should educate a Kenyan girl
so that we could have educated politicians, educated doctors, educated educators
and make our Kenya beautiful, a wonderful country and a developed country.
We should educate a Kenyan girl.
Why?
If a Kenyan girl is educated,
she is always beautiful, talented,
and ready to serve the Kenya and ready to serve her country Kenya.
We should educate a Kenyan girl.
We should thank Mr. Jason and Jenni who has volunteered to take their money
and teach us, take us, sponsor us
…four year sponsorship…
so that we could be educated
so that we could make good politicians, good lawyers, good doctors
and fulfill our dreams.
We should educate a Kenyan girl
so that we could make our Kenya better.
