{"id":191,"date":"2024-06-27T01:59:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T01:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kcffhzsz.a2hosted.com\/wordpress\/?p=191"},"modified":"2024-09-02T11:14:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T11:14:29","slug":"phi-kappa-phi-literacy-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toshtachino.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/27\/phi-kappa-phi-literacy-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Phi Kappa Phi Literacy Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am honored to be selected as a recipient of this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phikappaphi.org\/grants-awards\/literacy\/2024-literacy-grant-recipients\">Phi Kappa Phi\u2019s Literacy Grant<\/a>. I am excited to have this chance to support the Grapesyard School in Kenya, which serves over 1000 students in the Korogocho slum. I had a chance to visit this school earlier this year, and I was both impressed and moved by the dedication of Director Edmond Opondo, who started this school from scratch in 1999 and has built it to the point that it can compete with government schools in terms of academic excellence, even though his students are clearly much more disadvantaged. The school was recently hit hard by flooding, and it is struggling to feed its students with the current recession and inflation. This grant certainly won\u2019t solve all the problems, but I am very happy to be able to do something to help their effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am honored to be selected as a recipient of this year\u2019s Phi Kappa Phi\u2019s Literacy Grant. I am excited to have this chance to support the Grapesyard School in Kenya, which serves over 1000 students in the Korogocho slum. 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