Beneath The Baobab Tree: Where Poverty Dies and Hope Begins - Taschenbuch

Images flash on TV:
* Spaghetti-thin Africans stumbling into refugee camps
* Hollow-eyed children with distended bellies
* Brainwashed boys brandishing oversized weapons
Is this Africa? No! Something else is happening under the baobab tree in Kenya.
Beneath its ancient boughs, Western visitors and village elders respectfully dialogue, crafting a plan that will mix the best of Western entrepreneurship with African community. The result will be a village rescued from extreme poverty -- a school where children receive a stellar education and a self-sustaining business that employs over 100 women. And for everyone--hope!
In Kenya, Americans Debra Akre and Jeana King face complex problems like lack of water, deceitful school administrators, and widespread unemployment, in their district on the national secondary exams. Students who thought they have no future are now headed to university.
But when their circumstances force Debra and Jeana to leave the school, will they be able to start over in their fight to educate the children of Kenya? And, in the process, establish a reality that it is the work accomplished under the baobab tree that shows where poverty ends and hope begins? This book tells that story.