We Did That!

When the pandemic in 2020 first shut down summer school for students throughout the country, A Black Education Network (ABEN) decided to partner with H.I.M. Tours of Ghana to offer a virtual tour of that country. We anticipated taking 100 students and their adult chaperones for five days at two hours per day via livestreaming from Ghana. The first tour held in July 2020 sold out in a few weeks so we offered a second one in August 2020 (it sold out, too, with 108 students plus their chaperones). We invited participants from both tours to submit reflections and pictures or illustrations. Even after the worse part of the pandemic had subsided, we decided to offer a virtual tour to NIgeria in July 2021 and hired talented Nonye Nwaru to serve as our guide. We published a book about that country as well. This is the third book in the series and it offers reflections and illustrations from students and their chaperones on our virtual tour to Kenya. Written for children as young as 8 years old, adults will also find the book interesting as they learn about the rich culture of Kenya with a focus on the Masai people and the rich animal kingdom the country is well known for. Teachers or others who would like to incorporate the tours into their curriculum can go to ABEN's website (aben4ace.org) and purchase the videos and study guides for each country. Just click on What We Do, then Virtual Tours.