Sebastian's Dream

Our colleague Maina Wambugu Sebastian in Kenya has just released a beautiful video documentary called "Sebastian's Dream". It is an inspiring story of the work he has been doing in rural Kenya for years. You can view the video on youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD5W8FsbHR8&t=10s&ab_channel=YARDtelevision.

Maina wrote an essay in our second book, Sprouting Seeds of Radical Education which you can order here: https://www.pdltd.net/sprouting-seeds-of-radical-education .

As we enter 2025 inspiring stories like Maina's give us hope in these troubling times. In his essay in the book he describes his dream in the following way:

"My initial dream was to generate enough food for my mother and the community at large. This inspired me to be an agronomist — an idea incubated at an early age based on my own experience of hunger growing up. I vowed to do everything I could to ensure children and women were not subjected to extreme hunger, conflict, and disrupted learning. Food, water and pasture scarcity are catalysts for conflict among people and communities who live side by side in our region of Kenya. Escalation of such conflicts is complex when one community is pastoralist and nomadic, while the other practices agriculture. I was not aware at a young age why my mother and others were so poor, and why there was always conflict between the agriculturalists and pastoralists."

You can download a complementary reprint of the full essay

3 My Dream peace in rural schools in Kenya Wambugu 2021 REPRINT.pdf

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