A visitor from Lesotho

A few weeks ago we had a visitor in English class, Moliehi Sekese from the African country Lesotho. In 2009 she won the Educator Choice-award in Microsoft's Worldwide Innovative Teacher Award for her project on indigenous plants that she had with her class at her school. She teaches her students that education is the way out of poverty, and sets a good example for everyone in Lesotho.

In her school they only have two computers, and the number of students is 700! At my school, and many other schools in Norway, every student own their own laptop. And many students also have another personal laptop at home for non-school work. The contrasts between the two countries are huge! In Norway we wake up and go to school to learn, with a full stomach and clean clothes, and nothing worries us. In Lesotho many children go to school with an empty stomach, without warm clothes and even shoes, but they still come to school to learn. They have to worry about everything before they can educate themselves, but they still have the motivation to learn because they know it is important.

She was a real inspiration and the visit was really eye-opening. We take everything for granted in Norway and we don't think about how privileged we are, so it is really healthy for us to see how other people struggle in other countries, so we can learn that everybody doesn't live the good way we do and we can help them to a better life!

My group and I interviewed her, and we also filmed when she held a presentation for the class. We made a video, and you can watch it bellow:

(THE VIDEO IS COMING)


If you want to learn more about Lesotho you can visit this link