Emely Silver, left, with Jean Penny, RN, in Kenya.
The container that American Friends of Kenya loaded May 14, at Murphy Storage in Franklin.
Published May 24. 2021 12:33PM
By GLENN ALAN CHENEY, Special to the Times
What’s Norwich got to do with Kenya?
Quite a bit, actually.
It started back in 2004. Norwich resident Emely Silver, coordinator of the Career Center at E.O. Smith in Mansfield, met Irene Kimenyi, a math tutor there. Irene and her husband Samson, a professor of economics at UConn, were both Kenyans.
The Kimenyis had a modest but beautiful dream. They wanted to establish a little community library in their hometown back in Kenya, maybe even distribute books to nearby schools.