Project Information Story
Enjoy reading the following interviews to learn more about our recent Thrive students and what they stand for. Each Thrive student was asked the same 6 questions which address their expectations of the school, their family health history and what their future looks like now that they are disease-free and have a positive outlook on life.
Barnabah Allan Kwendo, Student Intern
- Why come to this school?
To get knowledge about Agriculture, to go and teach people in the community. - What do you expect from school?
I expect good results of what is being taught that should come within myself. - What is your health history?
Before I had eyesight problems and used eyeglasses to see what was near me. I was prone to Malaria, but after going to this school, I’m feeling well. - Have many people died from sickness from your family?
A total of 3 people died. Two of them died because of cancer and the other 1 from kidney failure. - How important to you is the materials that you’re learning?
Very important because I will use it to go teach the community. It teaches me how to live without using chemicals in planting so I can be healthy. - What do you expect to do after school?
I want to be a world changer, to go and teach the people in the community to adopt a disease-free community with the help of organic farming.
Milkah Simiyu, Student Intern
- Why come to this school?
To have knowledge in Agriculture, to expand it to the community and to become a disease-free community. - What do you expect from school?
To have great knowledge about Agriculture to expand it worldwide for them to acquire the knowledge. - What is your health history?
Before I was suffering from Malaria and a common fever, but herbal medicines help me and even make my skin smooth. Now I’m feeling okay and looking young. - Have many people died from sickness from your family?
One person has died from malnutrition. - How important to you is the materials that you’re learning?
Very important because introducing organic farming drives the community to change from inorganic to organic farming. - What do you expect to do after school?
To expand the knowledge of Agriculture to the community, to do 12 projects and to help the community.
Charles Saiyalel Leshaon, Student Intern
- Why come to this school?
To acquire more knowledge that I didn’t learn before and to learn more. - What do you expect from school?
To get more knowledge, to change my character and have more things to share with others. - What is your health history?
Before I used to have common flu sometimes, but now I’m so good and okay after taking the green diet. - Have many people died from sickness from your family?
My father died because of cigarette smoking and drinking liquor. It affected his lungs and his breathing. - How important to you is the materials that you’re learning?
It is important because it makes me to know more varieties of plants that I didn’t know before. School helped me to learn how to cook these varieties and to know their uses and effects. Documentaries enabled me to reclaim barren land and turn it into a productive land. The practicals taught me to make compost which makes the soil healthy in a cheaper way. - What do you expect to do after school?
The knowledge I have acquired will help to have a great impact in the community and as well in our country and even worldwide.
Electine Imbenzi, Student Intern
- Why come to this school?
I became interested of this knowledge and to acquire it. - What do you expect from school?
To gain knowledge to help other people in my community. - What is your health history?
Before I used to have a problem with my stomach after eating kales, but after being in school and taught about some knowledge of it, I became well. - Have many people died from sickness from your family?
Seven people from my family of Malaria and breast cancer, but mostly the cause is cancer. - How important to you is the materials that you’re learning?
It is important just like for the Green for Life book, I learned so much from it and in documentaries I learned how to treat and prevent sickness and diseases. The school helped me to get the tools and seeds for my project and even helped me with my own health. - What do you expect to do after school?
Now that I gained the knowledge I learned from this school, that knowledge will be used to teach people, and through that knowledge, it will help in terms of being healthy. It will also help the community to grow food without using chemicals.
Belinda Nasimiyu, Student Intern
- Why come to this school?
I liked the institution and the way they do is good especially the knowledge and skills. - What do you expect from school?
To expand my knowledge and even to share it to the community and expecting the support. - What is your health history?
Before I was sick several times with common sicknesses, but medicinal herbs have helped me to get well and energetic. - Have many people died from sickness from your family?
My grandfather died from prostate cancer and my Uncle died from diabetes. - How important to you is the materials that you’re learning?
Very important because it is helping people to be healed from sickness by using medicinal plants that I learned from school and even the support like tools, which makes it easier for the community to work on the project. - What do you expect to do after school?
To expand the knowledge that I acquired from the school to teach the community and make them a disease-free community. I want to change the community and even the world.
Warnorni N. Zeldah, Student Intern
- Why come to this school?
To acquire the knowledge about organic farming and apply the knowledge to the community. - What do you expect from school?
To expect support like financial and education. - What is your health history?
Before I was getting sick most of the time, but after being taught about natural medicine I became okay and good and haven’t felt sick again. - Have many people died from sickness from your family?
We had to burry 10 people last year because of Malaria and mostly cancer. - How important to you is the materials that you’re learning?
Very important because of the financial support for farming tools it helped the project to get started and survive. Learning medicinal plants which helped the community and even to my family. Learning the 8 principles of bio-intensive farming which has helped the community to make their soil fertile. - What do you expect to do after school?
To do 20 projects and change the world through organic farming.
Joseph Simiyu, Student Intern
- Why come to this school?
To acquire agricultural knowledge on how to grow food organically. - What do you expect from school?
To have support on smooth running of projects. - What is your health history?
Before I was suffering from pneumonia for 1 year and even Malaria attacked me 4 times in a year. After coming to the school and learning all this stuff, it was suppressed down and I became healthy and energetic. - Have many people died from sickness from your family?
NONE - How important to you is the materials that you’re learning? Very important because the natural medicine helped me to overcome sickness and diseases. For the support like tools and seeds it helped my project to get established easier. The documentaries helped me to increase my knowledge, especially the practicums. It helped me to have free education, accommodation, and nutritional foods that helped me to become healthy. The knowledge I acquired helped me to change my community to be disease-free.
- What do you expect to do after school?
To change the community in order to attain disease free, food sustainability of the community to eradicate chemically grown food and to teach them how to grow their food organically.
Henry Waweka, Student Intern
- Why come to this school?
To gain knowledge of nutrition and to learn more about natural medicine. - What do you expect from school?
To come up with knowledge that I’ll be gaining and to gain more knowledge apart from what I’ve learned before. - What is your health history?
Before this school, I was regularly attacked by Malaria 4 times a year, but after learning about natural medicine, I am no longer affected. - Have many people died from sickness from your family?
Two of my family members died from Malaria. - How important to you is the materials that you’re learning?
Very important because the knowledge that I’ve gained I have used to teach the community which has reduced the sickness and diseases and they’re now growing healthy. - What do you expect to do after school?
To improve on nutrition in communities by encouraging them to embrace organic food that they grow, to improve on disease-free communities and improve food security.
Peter Kebaso, Student Intern
- Why come to this school?
To transform my life so that I may be improved, to get the knowledge and to help other people. - What do you expect from school?
To have support in knowledge for me to go out and help people. - What is your health history?
Before I normally suffered from common sickness like headaches and would get tired easily. Malaria also was present 2 times in a year, but now I’m feeling okay because my health was changed to good. - Have many people died from sickness from your family?
One person died from HIV. - How important to you is the materials that you’re learning?
Very important because I am learning from the books that I have read and getting more information. The documentaries helped me to learn something more which I will teach to the communities and the organization helped me to have support in seeds for my projects. - What do you expect to do after school?
To go out, even abroad, teaching the way of organic farming so they can also benefit the good side effects.
Asige Emmanuel Khaus, Student Intern
- Why come to this school?
To improve life and the community. To have a change from what I used to be, to be newer and to work for my future. - What do you expect from school?
To have support in my project to eradicate poverty in the communities just like the aim of the organization. - What is your health history?
Malaria attacks me 4 times in 3 months, but now I’ve never been sick and I’m growing healthy. - Have many people died from sickness from your family?
Four people died because of cancer and malnutrition. - How important to you is the materials that you’re learning?
Very important because it teaches the community to have sustainable development, food security and self-improvement. It also improved my health and even the hope for my future. - What do you expect to do after school?
To try and solve the problem of food security by having long lasting projects, spreading the knowledge to communities especially to the people who are needy.
Kiboi K. Abraham, Student Intern
- Why come to this school?
To learn more about agriculture, to grow foods organically, to grow and change the society and country. - What do you expect from school?
To come out the best inventive and innovative and to go and be a world changer. - What is your health history?
Malaria had attacked me 4 times in a year, but now I’m not experiencing it anymore and have never been admitted to the hospital again. The natural medicine helped me to have a strong immune system. - Have many people died from sickness from your family?
6 people died because of AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malnutrition and Cancer. - How important to you is the materials that you’re learning?
Very important because I’m going to implement the knowledge about bio-intensive farming and natural medicine that I’ve acquired to teach them to my community. - What do you expect to do after school?
Promoting and selling natural medicine and herbal teas and even teaching them how to acquire the knowledge. I want to be a good example on how to implement organic farming.
Kennedy Ndinyo Wambeye, Student Intern
- Why come to this school?
To get the knowledge that I can use to help the community. - What do you expect from school?
To have this knowledge which I will use to ensure that the community is healthy, have enough food and have income generation. - What is your health history?
Before I was overweight, and Malaria attacked me 12 times in a year, but now I feel that I’m okay and never been experiencing Malaria again. - Have many people died from sickness from your family?
3 people died from Diabetes and High Blood pressure. - How important to you is the materials that you’re learning?
Very important because I’m gaining more knowledge that helped me to get more information about varieties of medicinal and vegetable plants. - What do you expect to do after school?
To go back to community and apply the knowledge to ensure that people are healthy, have enough food, have income generation and even create a disease-free community.
Otwane O. Joel, New Student
- Why come to this school?
To have knowledge about agriculture. Pursuing knowledge of agriculture, theology and discipleship to help the community. - What do you expect from school?
To be fully educated, employment and even supporting the projects. - What is your health history?
Malaria attacked me 4 times in a year, but now there are changes after eating foods that are nutritious which makes me healthy and stronger. - Have many people died from sickness from your family?
NONE - How important to you is the materials that you’re learning?
Very important because the materials are good. It gave me the knowledge that I never learned before and even the teachings will remain permanently. The documentaries helped me to understand well by learning more details and strengthen how to grow in life. - What do you expect to do after school?
To be moving all over the world to teach those people who do not have knowledge about organic farming and for them to get it. To start agricultural schools which entails organic farming purely to eradicate famine. To teach people about the need of having healthy soil in the life of human beings. To teach people about the need of using plants as medicinal plants against manufactured chemicals. To teach people about green diet rather than a dairy diet. To teach them more about how modern chemicals cause diseases in our lives. My aim is to reach people in the interior, to give them modern skills for a healthy generation.
Lorian Sabuni khaemba, New Student
- Why come to this school?
To gain knowledge and to use it in my community. - What do you expect from school?
To learn more about medicinal plants and nutritional foods. - What is your health history?
Malaria attacked me 6 times in a year but now I’m feeling okay and healthy because of the greens that I eat. - Have many people died from sickness from your family?
6 people died because of Tuberculosis and Malaria. - How important to you is the materials that you’re learning?
Very important because I learned so much from the book and even in the teachings and documentaries. - What do you expect to do after school?
To use the knowledge, to share it to communities by implementing projects.
Nyongesa Sabuni Kevin, New Student
- Why come to this school?
To gain agricultural knowledge and nutrition. To improve body and health. - What do you expect from school?
To acquire the greater knowledge of how to use bio-intensive farming and help to convince the society on how to practice organic farming. - What is your health history?
Before my appetite was down and even Malaria attacked me twice a year, but now my appetite is back to normal and even I feel good and healthy. - Have many people died from sickness from your family?
My real Mother died from Malaria. - How important to you is the materials that you’re learning?
Very important because it make my eyes open. The books helped me to get more knowledge. The documentaries helped me to easily understand how to apply it. - What do you expect to do after school?
To go and empower the community and encourage them to use more greens and have green smoothies. To teach the community the way of organic farming by double digging, super soil, vertical gardening and etc.
Bwire Lawrence Oundo, New Student
- Why come to this school?
To get and acquire knowledge. To go and change the society. - What do you expect from school?
To change the community by teaching new agricultural methods. To encourage communities to embrace natural medicine. - What is your health history?
Malaria attacked me 5 times in one year, but now I’m feeling healthy, stronger and energetic. - Have many people died from sickness from your family?
Two members of my family died because of cancer. - How important to you is the materials that you’re learning?
Very important because the documentaries teaches me more how to use natural medicine, to treat Malaria and it contains the deeper information. - What do you expect to do after school?
To go home and begin to plant natural medicine plants. To help people that are suffering from sickness and diseases. To go to the communities to teach them healthy living and I am planning to do 3 projects within my community.
Namukhula Oliver Mamayi, New Student
- Why come to this school?
To acquire knowledge about organic farming and to use the greens as food and medicine. - What do you expect from school?
To transform my family and the community by teaching them to have balanced diet and to be away from sickness and diseases and even improve the health. - What is your health history?
Before I am used to take processed foods, meat, sugar and even cooking oil. My body was suffering from common illnesses like cough, flu and Malaria for about 3 times in a year. But now I feel fine and okay with the help of green smoothies and the nutritious food that I take, it makes my immune system stronger and never been sick again. - Have many people died from sickness from your family?
3 people died from High blood pressure, Malaria and Diabetes. - How important to you is the materials that you’re learning?
Very important because it teaches how natural medicines can treat sickness and diseases like Malaria. The book helped me to acquire knowledge about bio-intensive farming. - What do you expect to do after school?
To start a project from home, to teach the knowledge that I have acquired to the communities and churches by transforming them.
Tom Mulongo, New Student
- Why come to this school?
To get knowledge about Agriculture and to know how to generate income. - What do you expect from school?
To go and transform the community in showing the method of organic farming. - What is your health history?
Before I used to have common sickness like headache and stomach ache but now my health is improving. - Have many people died from sickness from your family?
1 died from Throat Cancer. - How important to you is the materials that you’re learning?
Very important because I can get the knowledge of organic farming, learn different methods and know how to control certain diseases using herbal medicines. - What do you expect to do after school?
To transform the society, to teach them how to generate income and to be a disease-free community.
Wafula Brian Wanyama, New Student
- Why come to this school?
To get knowledge and to improve my life. To learn different varieties of plants. - What do you expect from school?
To expand the vision, to do something that is unique and change the lives of the people. - What is your health history?
Before I had common sickness and would even be attacked by Malaria four times in a year, but now I am feeling well and have never felt unwell again. - Have many people died from sickness from your family?
NONE - How important to you is the materials that you’re learning?
Very important because it expands my mind to get the knowledge and I am happy for the teachings and practicums. - What do you expect to do after school?
To act as an example starting with my family, to teach them, changing their lives, introducing organic farming to the communities and awareness of the people about nutritious food.
Wafula S. Emmanuel, New Student
- Why come to this school?
To get knowledge about planting crops without using chemicals and learn different things, especially natural medicine. - What do you expect from school?
To teach people how to control diseases by just eating vegetables. Encourage the community not to use chemicals for farming. - What is your health history?
Before I would be attacked by Malaria 2 times in a year, but now my appetite is increasing and I am becoming more energetic. - Have many people died from sickness from your family?
1 died from cancer. - How important to you is the materials that you’re learning?
Very important because it teaches how to treat Malaria, teaching us to plant crops, teach us how to cut fats in our body, knowledge how to double dig and importance of soil structure. - What do you expect to do after school?
To be a teacher, to teach people what I learned and even bring some people to this institution to learn.
Bujegembe Jean De Dieu, New Student
- Why come to this school?
To change the community through taking care of the soil, to take nutritional foods and to teach them how to treat diseases like Malaria. - What do you expect from school?
To help understand more about vegetables and natural medicines. - What is your health history?
Before I used to be attacked by Malaria 4 times in a year, but now I feel some changes which make my immune system stronger. - Have many people died from sickness from your family?
2 died from Asthma. - How important to you is the materials that you’re learning?
Very important because it increases my knowledge to change the community by bio-intensive farming and natural medicine. - What do you expect to do after school?
To improve by planting Artemisia and Moringa in my community, to come up with a disease-free community and teaching the community about bio-intensive farming.
Sammy K. Morongo, New Student
- Why come to this school?
To acquire knowledge about organic farming and to transform people with the knowledge I have acquired. - What do you expect from school?
To acquire knowledge that will assist the community and to improve life and even the community as well. - What is your health history?
Before I used to be attacked by Malaria 4 times in a year and some common illnesses but now I feel stronger. - Have many people died from sickness from your family?
4 people died from High blood pressure, Typhoid fever and Malaria. - How important to you is the materials that you’re learning?
Very important because it has taught me how to know organic farming, applying manure to the soil, green smoothies which can help improve our body and immune system. - What do you expect to do after school?
Teach people more about Christianity, teach about herbal medicines and organic farming.
Samuel Nawi, New Student
- Why come to this school?
To develop myself through the knowledge of organic farming. - What do you expect from school?
To know more agricultural plants and to get knowledge in helping needy people in the community. - What is your health history?
Before I suffered from ulcers and heartburns and when I came for 2 weeks training I felt some changes in my body. For now, I can eat all the vegetables and I feel so healthy. - Have many people died from sickness from your family?
My sister died because of Malaria and Malnutrition. - How important to you is the materials that you’re learning?
Very important because it gives me more knowledge, more wide and more details, I understood many things that I didn’t know before. - What do you expect to do after school?
To help the community with the knowledge of organic farming. Aiming majorly to widows and orphans. To make a disease-free community.
Wakwenje Haron Maakaka, New Student
- Why come to this school?
To gain knowledge of agriculture. To heal myself and the world. - What do you expect from school?
To gain education and to teach others. - What is your health history?
I used to be attacked by common sickness and even Malaria which attacks me 12 times in a year, but now I feel good and fine. - Have many people died from sickness from your family?
1 died from Malaria/Typhoid. - How important to you is the materials that you’re learning?
It helped me to remember the teachings. The practicum is the best part of learning. - What do you expect to do after school?
To teach others and heal them, teaching new life by spreading the knowledge and to have a disease-free community.
Melvin Isanda Akungu, New Student
- Why come to this school?
To get the knowledge of organic farming. - What do you expect from school?
To give the knowledge of organic farming and how to use medicinal plants. - What is your health history?
Before I used to be attacked by common sickness and even Malaria which attacked me once in a year. But now I’m doing okay and healthy. - Have many people died from sickness from your family?
5 people died from Diabetes, Typhoid and Malaria. - How important to you is the materials that you’re learning?
The books improved my knowledge to easily understand and get the idea, the practicum assists the knowledge of how to apply, the documentaries encourage and change the lifestyle and teachings which gave me the knowledge and the ideas. - What do you expect to do after school?
To educate the community, to show them the organic way of farming, to change the lifestyle of my family and community, to change the community by means of organic farming and a healthy lifestyle.
Vivian Chesang, New Student
- Why come to this school?
To get knowledge of planting and learn about medicinal plants. - What do you expect from school?
To give some knowledge on how to practice organic farming. - What is your health history?
Before I used to be attacked by Malaria 3 times in a year and some common sickness, but now I feel okay and healthy. - Have many people died from sickness from your family?
2 died because of Malaria. - How important to you is the materials that you’re learning?
Very important because it gives knowledge of many things like the importance of eating greens. - What do you expect to do after school?
To teach people about organic farming and even changing the community.
Brian Wafula, New Student
- Why come to this school?
Because the school has a good plan they offer free education about organic farming and even the teachings of the institution is what my community needs. - What do you expect from school?
To give the knowledge until I reach the highest level, to finish all and I want to go to DTS. - What is your health history?
Before I used to be attacked by Malaria 12 times in a year but after coming to this school and eating the greens it helped me to boost my immune system and I am now healthy and energetic. - Have many people died from sickness from your family?
2 died from Tuberculosis and Malaria. - How important to you is the materials that you’re learning?
Very important because the books help me to earn more knowledge like the Green for Life book. The practicum helped me to apply the teachings and the documentaries helped me to how to change the community. - What do you expect to do after school?
To help 100 people who are suffering from sickness and diseases, to teach them the balanced diet, teaching hygiene by making tipi taps, and to teach them how to grow their own food organically and to have income generation.
Dorcus Nanjala Wekesa, New Student
- Why come to this school?
To acquire knowledge of Agriculture, to go out to spread the vision of the institution and to do it practically at home and in communities. - What do you expect from school?
To have maximum knowledge about the institution, get the importance of this institution in Kenya and making the institution to grow and spread. - What is your health history?
Before I suffered from allergies after eating chicken meat and chicken eggs and also Malaria attacked me 10 times in a year. After getting into this institution and eating nutritional foods that they served, it has changed my body and has boosted my immune system, I feel more comfortable and energetic. - Have many people died from sickness from your family?
2 died from Malaria and Prostate Cancer. - How important to you is the materials that you’re learning?
Very important because the books taught me the importance of greens in our life and in our body. The documentaries gave me deeper understanding, details and knowledge. The practicum helped me to do it practically which for me it is easier to understand. - What do you expect to do after school?
To go and teach the community of how to take their health in a natural way by natural medicines. To have disease-free community and stop malnutrition in my home, community and country.
Alice M.C. Binale, New Student
- Why come to this school?
To learn more about organic farming. - What do you expect from school?
To learn holistically in organic farming, nutrition, natural medicine and income generation. - What is your health history?
Before I suffered from Malaria and some problems with my bowel movements, but after eating greens I feel changes for which now I visit the toilet regularly. - Have many people died from sickness from your family?
NONE - How important to you is the materials that you’re learning?
Very important because it helped me become healthy and even my family too. - What do you expect to do after school?
My vision is to make the country healthy by my 5 year plan which first is to establish a demo plot, second is to mobilize farmers to be trained, third is to use farmers to invite other farmers which the ratio will be 1 to 5, to establish seed banks and to have income generation.
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Ed Jay Espinosa