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 17 Nov Serena opens school in Kenya
Serena Williams (pictured) has become the latest African American to be associated with a school project in Africa, following her visit to Kenya over the week end where she opened a school named after her in the remote village of Matooni in Makueni District.
The highly decorated tennis player, who is on a charity tour of Kenya opened the Serena Williams Secondary School that she helped build.
She follows in the footsteps of Oprah Winfrey who built a US$40m school in South Africa for girls from poor backgrounds.
Urging local children to embrace education as the only key to success, Serena said: "Education can produce a lot and open the doors for the kids."
Serena who is ranked the world’s number two tennis player said she was excited and felt honoured to visit Kenya and open the school is located in Mutyamboa location, Makueni constituency, near Sultan Hamud.
The four-room building which was build under the initiative of Build African Schools, a brainchild of Patrick O’Sullivan, will welcome its first students in January.
O’Sullivan shared Serena’s sentiments, saying education is the key to a bright future.
"Tomorrow’s informed educated sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, of this land, will be dominant influence on their own destiny and for generations of Africans to come," Sullivan said.
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