I spoke with Sarah Strader about her efforts to help teach children in Africa.
Sarah Strader graduated from Ann Arbor's Pioneer High School, where she received an American Field Service scholarship and worked in an orphanage in Ghana, which gave her her first view of children in need in Africa.
She teaches pre-skill schools to local community members that deliver the lessons in the Baka language to children in the community.
She teaches vocabulary and life skills with music and dance using a hand crank Mp3 player because there is no electricity or running water.
The children she serves speak no English and live in the forest of central Africa and are "hunters-gatherers." They hunt deer, snakes, hedgehogs, and wild rats in the forest, and they eat what they can catch.
Sarah said food is scarce, and she experienced hunger like she never felt it before.
She's having a 5k fundraiser for her non-profit October 9th at Gallup Park.
"Chasing Two Rabbits at Once" is the non-profit she founded.
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— Lisa Barry is a reporter, and host of All Things Considered on 89.1 WEMU. Contact her at 734.487.3363, on twitter @LisaWEMU, or email her lbarryma@emich.edu
