Kenya - Ukunda Project

Who is Frank

A STORY ABOUT MY HOME AREA AND MY STUDY

My name is Frank de Vries, I was born on 8 november 1987 in Haarlem (Holland). I just finished middle school and I will go to next school in August 2004. It is a Dutch tradition when someone graduates from middle / high school or university, you put your school bag and the flag on the flag pole and put it outside your house, so everyone knows you graduated.
I want to become a multi media specialist. At this moment I already designed many websites, including the school websites for my father's school and for my middle school HBM.
As you can read on the introduction page of our project, I visited Kenya during summer vacation 0f 2003. I was able to visit the Mvindeni primary school with the help from Rosie. I am glad we were able to pay visits to this school and a middle school. Now I understand more about the difficulties many schools in Africa have to deal with. I hope this project will be successful, so we will be able to help the Mvindeni primary school.

My hobbies are computers, talking with my friends all over the world (through MSN), making videos, my scooter and my rock collection.

When we came back from our vacation in Kenya, I started to work on this website. I designed it and wrote the Dutch version. My Dad Rene and his USA colleague Joan took care for English translation since my English is not that good in the beginning. However, right now I have no problems anymore with English because of this project and the week in London.

As I said, I am the designer of this website and it was Rosie Anami who introduced me online to Hilder. Alas, I never met Hilder in person and it would be fun to meet her some day soon.

Hilder does not have access to internet and computers all the time, so it was no problem that I would take care for the website design and Hilder took care for the information about Kenya. I think this way we did a great job, working together like we did. It is my wish to try to get her a laptop with internet access, so we can chat and exchange information more easily.