Speedy Fingers: Beth, a 12-year-old Kenyan student began learning

keyboarding at a computer center established by AIM missionary Steve

Peifer. After three months practice she's typing 51 words per minute.

Go Beth!

"The rains have made everything so much greener here," writes AIM missionary Steve Peifer, whose school lunch program and computer centers, like Kenya’s much-needed rain, have brought brighter days to Kenyan school children.

Over the past several years Steve has helped to establish computer centers built from used shipping containers and equipped with solar panels to help Kenyan students learn skills that will give them a brighter future.

In addition to the centers, he’s also established school lunch programs so children who would ordinarily go without can have a nutritious lunch at school. Steve writes, "If we can feed them and teach them technology, we can change the face of Kenya in a generation. And Jesus will get the credit."

 

The community gathers to celebrate the

opening of a new computer center. This

center, built from a used shipping

container and powered by solar panels,

now serves 900 Kenyan students.

"On a recent visit to one of the computer centers ...the students were just so full of life... When the bell was rung for lunch they ran to lunch with so much gusto.

 "The best part of the visit was seeing kids in the new computer lab. [The region] is so remote and so poor; there wasn’t one student who had ever seen a computer before. The teacher introduced me to Beth, who is 12 years old. She typed 51 words per minute in front of me, with only one error. She has had three months on the computer.

"The kids here are still so poor, and they still wear rags.

"But they were so thrilled to be eating, and so elated to be learning how to use the computer. I bet I had 30 kids just shout to me ‘I love computers!’’’

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