EXCHANGE STUDENTS KENYAN PEN PALS' LETTERS ARRIVE.Byline: Lisa M. Sodders Staff Writer NORTH HILLS - Third-grade students at Vintage Magnet Elementary School elementary school: see school. got an early lesson in world geography and cultural affairs Wednesday, reading letters and watching video footage from their pen pals Pen Pals or penpals may refer to:
Last February about 100 students at the school sent letters and beaded beaded /bead·ed/ (bed´ed) having the appearance of beads or a string of beads. bead·ed adj. 1. Having numerous small rounded projections often in a row. 2. bracelets to third-graders at Nthunguni (pronounced Thoon-goon-ee) Primary School in the east African Adj. 1. East African - of or relating to or located in East Africa nation of Kenya. The replies came back Wednesday. ``I think it's really cool,'' said 8-year-old Ian Martin Ian Martin is a human rights activist who has been involved in a number of Human Rights organisation. He is currently the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Nepal for United Nations Mission in Nepal. Arujo of Mission Hills, holding his letter from 8-year-old Mwangangi Philip, which included a drawing of a school, elephant and a monkey. ``And I think they're good draw-ers, especially this elephant.'' The exchange was organized by the nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. group Project Jambo. Jambo director Sue Gilbert recently returned from a trip to the African school and delivered the letters and video showing the Kenyan students singing and dancing. ``It's fabulous,'' said Vintage Principal Esta Herman. ``It exposes them to something beyond their little world and it teaches them about kids from other cultures.'' Arujo said he planned to write his pen pal pen pal n. A person with whom one becomes acquainted through a friendly, regular correspondence. pen pal Noun Informal same as pen friend Noun 1. in the summer. ``And I'll send stamps so he can write back.'' For more information about Project Jambo (``jambo'' means ``hello'' in Swahili), check out the Web site at www.projectjambo.org. Lisa M. Sodders, (818) 713-3663 lisa.sodders(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1) Vintage Magnet third-graders Richard Arreola, Khalil Semien and Devon Hawkins, from left, read a letter that arrived Wednesday from a pen pal at Nthunguni School in Kenya, part of Project Jambo - an international program for kids. (2 -- 3) Ian Martin Arujo, right, shows off the letter he received from a Kenyan pen pal. Sue Gilbert of Project Jambo, below, shows a picture of a Kenyan kitchen to Vintage Magnet students. Charlotte Schmid-Maybach/Staff Photographer |
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