For Faith, education brings compassion

My name is Faith from Enelerai Primary School in the Maasai Mara of Kenya. I have just returned from Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi, where I visited my aunt.

Life in Nairobi is completely different from my life here at home in rural Kenya. In Nairobi, I saw very tall houses; people say they are called “sky scrapers” in English. My Aunt took me to her office. We went in a box that moves up and down because of electricity; people say it is called an “elevator.”

I have been wondering why some people live in these huge, tall homes and have safe streets while others live in mud homes and have wild animals outside like we do.

I think these problems all come from one place: people are not educated. If someone wants to help someone else, there is only one answer: they study hard and get an education. If you become educated, there is nothing in the world that can defeat you.

I have seen this in my own life. My grandfather and grandmother have not been to school. They don’t know how important it is to boil their water to keep from becoming sick.

Our younger generation learns these lessons in school. We help our community and take care of one another by sharing these lessons with our elders. This helps us and this helps others. In my community we know that education brings compassion.