Jessica Posner grew up a middle-class American in Denver. She hadn’t seen much of the world, and when she had an opportunity to study overseas she chose to do political theater work in Kenya. Jessica ended up living in a slum with no streets, no toilets, no running water, no electricity and no public services. Then she got malaria…
Nevertheless, Jessica and Kennedy Odede, who lived in a Kenyan slum called Kibera, worked together to build a school for girls and a health clinic, bring clean water to the slum, and help dozens of people start small businesses. The magic of their collaboration is the local participation Kennedy inspires, combined with the outside funding prowess Jessica provides. Find out how they accomplished so much in my article in The Women’s Eye.
I love this video of one of the students in the Kibera School for Girls that Posner and Odede founded:
