{"id":542,"date":"2013-05-02T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T18:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/?p=542"},"modified":"2013-05-07T20:28:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T20:28:46","slug":"african-tribal-leader-visits-tallwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/african-tribal-leader-visits-tallwood\/","title":{"rendered":"African tribal leader visits Tallwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_543\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-543\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-543\" alt=\"Left to right: Rebecca Gurley, GSWL academy coordinator; John Kilenyi Ole Parsitau, Maasai community organizer; Kenya Liaison Chief Joseph Ole Tipanko; and Kayla Milstead, GSWLA senior.  \" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/photo-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/photo-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/photo-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/photo-401x300.jpg 401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left to right: Rebecca Gurley, GSWL academy coordinator; John Kilenyi Ole Parsitau, Maasai community organizer; Kenya Liaison Chief Joseph Ole Tipanko; and Kayla Milstead, GSWLA senior.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For her senior project at the Global Studies and World Languages Academy at Tallwood High School, Kayla Milstead invited an African tribal leader to the school.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Ole Tipanko, chief, schiool teacher and leader\u00a0of his Kenyan tribe of\u00a0more than\u00a05,000 people, spoke to several classes at Tallwood about his country.Tipanko is president of the MSGSA-OUTREACH organization which draws its members from Ntashat, an area of economic and social distress some 40 km outside of Nairobi. Tipanko told the students about his village\u2019s culture and its work to improve tribal life\u00a0by securing\u00a0clean water sources and advanced educational opportunities for girls. The Cheif sells handmade tribal jewelry to raise funds for his village\u2019s projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For her senior project at the Global Studies and World Languages Academy at Tallwood High School, Kayla Milstead invited an African tribal leader to the school.\u00a0 Joseph Ole Tipanko, chief, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}