AIM Missionary Steve Peifer has been nominated as one of CNN’s Heroes, a program spotlighting individuals making significant differences in the world around them. Peifer’s nomination comes for his work in feeding Kenyan children in 25 schools and establishing solar-powered computer training centers in remote areas of Kenya.

"We can change the face of Kenya in a generation. And Jesus will get the credit."As part of the nomination Peifer will receive a $10,000 award which he intends to use to establish another computer center, his eleventh so far.

He is hopeful that this nomination will help raise awareness for the problems faced by many Kenyan children -- hunger and the seemingly endless cycle of poverty. It all started for Peifer in 2000 while visiting a Kenyan school; the children in the classroom hadn’t eaten for days.

“It was so hard to see,” he recalls. “It was one of those ‘change everything’ moments.”

Since that day Peifer has worked to provide nourishment and computer training to students throughout Kenya.

"If we can feed them and teach them technology,” says Peifer, “we can change the face of Kenya in a generation. And Jesus will get the credit."

Peifer has also received recognition from Yale University as one of its 2007 "Guidance Counselors of the Year" for his work at AIM’s Rift Valley Academy in Kenya. Yale recently admitted its first RVA graduate. As a counselor, Peifer says his goal is to get kids into the college God is calling them to, and get them as much funding as he possibly can.

 “I know I don’t deserve any of this,” says Peifer. “There are so many people more deserving than me.

“I’ve experienced a lot of failure, and I realize how much I need Jesus. It’s all the Lord. It’s brought me to him in a different way.”

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Read about Steve Peifer's Computer center project: http://www.aimint.org/can/relief__development/computer_training_centres.html

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