Steve Pearson
My blogs
| Introduction | I'm a fourth grade teacher at East Central Elementary School in Finlayson, Minnesota. I've been a teacher for 33 years, 28 as a special education teacher and the past 5 at the elementary level. In the spring of 2008, my wife and I visited and worked briefly in Malawi, a small country in southeastern Africa. We returned to Malawi for three months (March - May of 2009) last spring to do volunteer work in the schools and the health care delivery system. We also set up two funds, one to provide scholarships for secondary school students (grades 9 - 12; tuition costs vary from $15 to $90 per term) and another to support the orphan care program which provides staples to extended families who are caring for AIDS orphans. We are returning once more this spring of 2010 and again will be collecting and disbursing funds for both of our projects which are now under the heading Straight to the Heart (Malawi being the Warm Heart of Africa). |
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