with a Million dollars doped Global Teacher Award on Sunday evening in a ceremony held at the mathematics and physics teacher Peter Tabichi been awarded. And donated the prize to the Indian-born and Dubai-working entrepreneur Sunny Varkey has been initiated.

Tabichi teaches at the Keriko Middle School. The school, with its poorly equipped class rooms, is located in the village of Pwani – in a remote, rural area of Kenya. 95 percent of the students who take part in a walk to school of up to 7 kilometers under your feet, come from poor backgrounds; around a third of Tabichis are 58 students orphans or semi-orphans.

The 36-Year-old, who belongs to the Franciscan order, is a single Computer with unstable connection to the Internet. In order to have enough school to have fabric available to you, visit the passionate teacher Internet cafes, where he invites the Online training material, which he then used offline in the classroom.

“To see how my learners Knowledge, skills and confidence grow, my greatest joy.”

Tabichi and other teacher colleagues, their pupils outside of school hours and on weekends. Also Tabichi visited the students and their families at home, to find out what challenges they are facing. For many students it is difficult to get in the morning at home to eat, so Tabichi. Because hungry students in the school can not concentrate, he makes sure that you get a Breakfast.

the Jury was Impressed in particular, that Tabichi donates 80 percent of his monthly salary to local charities. His donations also support his students, who cannot afford school uniforms or books.

Praised the Jury talks to arts, Tabichis Motivation; and his disciples believed in themselves; their power and their self-esteem had improved dramatically. The school enrollment has doubled in three years to 400, and the number of cases of indiscipline decreased from 30 per week to only three.

Video-portrait Tabichis. (Source: Youtube/Global Teacher Prize).

in 2017, a fall of only 16 of a total of 59 students at the University, during a year, 26 students have visited the University and the College. Especially, the performance of girls has been increased. In all four Tests, which were carried out in the last year, are now girls as well as boys.

Also founded Tabichi a Club for natural Sciences, he regularly participates in international competitions.

Tabichi was Rewarded, ultimately, for his extraordinary commitment, his hard work and his passionate Belief in the Talent of its students. “To see how my students grow in Knowledge, skills and confidence is my greatest joy”, so Tabichi, had set itself against 10’000 Nominees from 179 countries.

Generous multi-millionaire with a job

The decision in the competition fell in the context of the world’s largest specialist conference for school and education in Dubai. The “Global Education & Skills Forum” took part at the weekend of around 2000 teachers, education researchers and education policy makers.

for 2015, a prize awarded by the Varkey Gems Foundation is Donated. Their goal is to promote the Reputation of the teaching profession. At this price, it’s not just the money, but also to bring the thousands of inspiring stories to light, explains the founder of the Foundation, the Indian businessman and philanthropist Sunny Varkey.

today, The multi-millionaire Varkey, advocate worldwide for better school quality and support for disadvantaged children, has a private education Empire that started as a small family business. Today, more than a hundred schools and kindergartens belong to his Foundation.

in Order to allow their son Sunny in Arab Emirates a Indian education, was founded by his parents in Dubai are a small school with 27 seats. As Sunny later took over the operation of the school, it was already 720 students, today, thousands of children learning in this school. (nag)

Created: 25.03.2019, 10:51 PM