Arundel High teacher plans to bring home lessons from internship in Kenya

Nairobi, Kenya, has tin-roof shacks, open sewers and a roaming gang armed to the hilt.

And now it has Barbara Dziedzic, an English teacher from Arundel High School in Gambrills who is trying to see how lessons learned there can be applied to her students here.

As an intern with The Advocacy Project, Dziedzic is working alongside the Undugu Society of Kenya, a nonprofit organization that helps struggling children in that country.

She arrived in mid-June, leaving Maryland a few days after the school year ended, and will spend the summer working as an advocate for street children. She made the trip to the east African...