From Window magazine: WWU partners with a Kenya school for new international service learning program

After a watchful guard killed a deadly puff adder snake that had slithered into the school yard of Ombogo Girls Academy in Kenya last summer, Kathryn Bachen chronicled what happened next.

“The girls wanted to dissect it,” Bachen says. “Ask any of those girls, they’ll either say they want to be a doctor or a lawyer.”

Bachen was visiting the high school, whose students include many orphaned by AIDS, with a WWU group that also included Fairhaven Professor Marie Eaton, to start an international service learning program in Kenya.

Read the rest of this story in Window magazine online here. To watch a video created by Bachen of the trip and the Center for Service-Learning's plans in Kenya, click here. The video contains many more of Bachen's images from the trip. A slideshow of Bachen's images is available here.

To watch a lecture given in the fall by Marie Eaton regarding service learning in Kenya, click here.