The last match of Serena Williams: Kenya.
Wote, Makueni, Kenya- American tennis star Serena Williams spoke of her plans Wednesday for providing education opportunities to thousands of children in Africa. At the end of her three-day tour of Kenya, the current world No. 1 said that she plans to help build one new school every year in parts of Africa. While touring Kenya, the 28-year-old American tennis star opened a second school in Makueni, some 150 kilometers southeast of the capital, Nairobi. According to the national census statistics during Serena’s first visit to the country, about 63 percent of the local population live below the poverty line. Makueni, the administrative district in the Eastern Province of Kenya, has a population of about 771545 according to the 1999 census. Serena commissioned her first school in her first trip to Kenya in November 2008. The reigning champion in both singles and women’s doubles at the Australian Open and Wimbledon has helped in the construction of schools in Kenya, Senegal and South Africa. She has also provided student grants and has joined in the campaign against malaria in Ghana. “Serenas teaching life lessons to students in Kenya! Tennis star Serena Williams, 28, may have found a new career as a teacher! Serena has been taking a brief break from her impressive tennis career recently to open up schools in Africa, and today she taught the first class of her second secondary school that just opened its doors! I dont know who was more nervous, the kids staring at some . . .
this is awesomwe, giving back, something a lot of famous ppl don’t do, but you did and still doing it,