{"id":5125,"date":"2023-07-10T18:48:50","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T18:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/?p=5125"},"modified":"2024-03-20T17:20:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T17:20:10","slug":"international-visits-and-collaborations-rwanda-and-kenya-july-10-21-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/2023\/07\/10\/international-visits-and-collaborations-rwanda-and-kenya-july-10-21-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"International visits and Collaborations: Rwanda and Kenya- July 10-21, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Mortenson Center Team- Prof. Dr. Clara Chu and Dr. Peggy Nzomo had an opportunity to attend and present at the <a href=\"https:\/\/peaceedconferencerwanda.com\/\">Peace Education Conference<\/a> held in Kigali, Rwanda. While there, they took the opportunity to visit several libraries in Rwanda and Kenya and discussed potential collaborations with the Mortenson Center.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5158 size-full\" title=\"St Joan's Academy - Key School Library\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2024\/01\/St.-joans-academy-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2024\/01\/St.-joans-academy-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2024\/01\/St.-joans-academy-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2024\/01\/St.-joans-academy-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2024\/01\/St.-joans-academy-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2024\/01\/St.-joans-academy-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2024\/01\/St.-joans-academy-2048x1542.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><b>Kenya Visits included:<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya: <\/b>School of Information; <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">University Library<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Department of Information studies; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">University Library<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Key School Libraries: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">St. Joan\u2019s Academy; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Little Lambs School; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kapsabet Boys High School<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Kenya Library Association<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Kenya National Library Services<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Technical University of Kenya<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><b>Rwanda visits included:<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Children\u2019s Peace Libraries<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>University of Rwanda Library<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Rwanda National Library Services<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Kigali Public Library<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5157 size-full\" title=\"Children's Peace Library in Kigali\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2024\/01\/Rwanda-visit1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1052\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2024\/01\/Rwanda-visit1.jpg 1052w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2024\/01\/Rwanda-visit1-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2024\/01\/Rwanda-visit1-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2024\/01\/Rwanda-visit1-768x578.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1052px) 100vw, 1052px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mortenson Center Team- Prof. Dr. Clara Chu and Dr. Peggy Nzomo had an opportunity to attend and present at the Peace Education Conference held in Kigali, Rwanda. While there, they took the opportunity to visit several libraries in Rwanda and Kenya and discussed potential collaborations with the Mortenson Center. &nbsp; Kenya Visits included: Moi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-center-news","category-collaborations","category-partnerships"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5125"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5178,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125\/revisions\/5178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}