For this blog, it is about someone overcoming odds. The online article I read, Overcoming Odds: Brothers Graduate from Dartmouth, Build Clinic in Native Kenyan Village, talks about two brothers Milton and Fred Ochieng, from the rural Lwala village of Kenya, and how they overcame huge odds. They were able to both graduate from the presitgious Dartmouth College and build a health clinic in their rural villiage through persistance, hope, and effort. Orginially, it seemed impossible for them to raise the sufficient amount of funds, but with awarness from across the U.S. it became possible. Today Fred and Milton still hope to expand health care, providing it to other areas. Also, they have funded 23 Kenyan teens to attend high school! I was very inspired when I read this story because they came from literally no where and have made such an impact on the world today. The hope they had was massive because they lost both of their parents, but, somehow managed to move on in their lives which I could not have done easily. I think that if they could expand their aims to helping other rural villages, that would hugely benefit everyone in rural Kenya villages. People like Fred and Milton are hard to come by which is why if there were more of them, image how great the world would be.
MLA:
Delos, Robin. "Overcoming Odds: Brothers Graduate from Dartmouth, Build Clinic in Native Kenyan Village." Diverse. 10 Mar 2009 <http://www.diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_12332.shtml>.
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