encouraging empathy for other life

That is the question we asked high school students in rural Morocco and Kenya. In early 2024, we invited students from 9 schools in each country to speak their minds and write what they see as the challenges in the world they're inheriting. They wrote bravely about the future they see, along with ideas and hopes for making the world better. In Morocco, the students were primarily from southern and southeastern parts of the country; in Kenya, they were all Maasai from Narok, Kaijado, and Samburu Counties. We held an event in Fes in May 2024 to honor the Moroccan writers and an event in Narok in September to honor the young Kenyans.

 

Their essays are eye-opening. These young people deserve to be heard and have a lot to say.

 

We will publish many of their essays and will have more to report here in 2025.​