Shine Launched!
Teachers at shine training
I am not sure where I have summoned the energy from to get a blog out tonight but I am just so excited to be able to share about today. You know when you get tired, so tired that you can hardly think straight – and then you get a second wind? That’s me, right now – sitting in bed at 9pm in my little room in Kiandu.
After 2 extremely full on days of running around frantically, meetings, mishaps and interesting last minute surprises we managed to pull together day 1 of the 2 day shine program today!! We trained 90 primary school teachers on how to implement the shine program in their schools. It went so well!
I couldn’t be happier with it so far. We had such a fun day of training with the teachers doing activities and sharing stories and experiences. They really gave it their all today, which was such a wonderful gift to be given after all the hard work we have put in. It was a long day but I will go to sleep with a smile on my face tonight and I can’t wait to go back in there tomorrow.
There is such a wonderful team running the ‘shine’ program. It’s truly a pleasure to work with these people. I am so lucky to be surrounded by such incredible people who have made this project come together.
After tomorrow these 90 teachers will be equipped to go back to their schools and implement shine into their schools curriculum and it will be run troughout the year in groups. Shine aims teaches children connectedness, resilience, confidence and a strong sense of self and also to think positively and have a sense of possibility for the future. It aims to foster the mental, social and physical wellbeing of Kenyan students and therefore their community.
kelli facilitating the shine training for 90 teachers
90 teachers at 2 day shine training kenya