Tumaini Kids Use Running & Blogging to Connect with World

My Singapore friend Ivan Chew, the blogging rambling Librarian, found the Tumaini Kids blog and was inspired to dedicate this great original song to them. The best way to get the whole story is to see the YouTube clip produced by the two women, who met at Stanford Univeristy, bummed around the world before stumbling across the Tumaini Children's Center, which houses 170 orphans and "vulnerable children in Nyeri, Kenya.

The two started the Hope Runs project.  They now live at Tumaini and train the kids in running. They hope the sport will connect the kids to people in more developed nations and they look for small donations and used sneakers to help their kids. There's also a social entrepreneurial thread that runs through what they are doing.

The blog is amazingly articulate in the postings apparently by teenage Tumaini kids.

I'm not sure if this should be considered part of the SAP Global Survey, but it certainly is a great example of how social media is impacting culture and changing the world.

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[claire]

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