Education part of delegation's Farmers Helping Farmers visit

Farmers Helping Farmers ishosting a delegation from Kenya who are spending a week on P.E.I.learning from farmers across the province.

Five delegates will tour and visit various businesses and farms as well as meet with government officials during their visit.

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Thedelegates and two members of Farmers Helping Farmers met over the weekend to discuss how to teachdiscipline methods, other than corporal punishment to teachers back home.

Carolyn Francis, past president of Farmers Helping Farmers and the coordinator of the bachelor of education program atUPEI, said although corporal punishment has been banned in Kenya, it takes time to learn new ways of doing things.

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"That'sa process thattakes time. You need to know what other strategies you can use. That's the point of what we're hoping will be a project that we'll work on with schools that are twinned in Kenya," she said.

"Since we have Kenyans here, we thought we should take advantage of them, and they're all on the education committee for the county where we spend a good part of our work, so we said OK let's spend some time with them so we can start the partnership here."

Farmers Helping Farmers is an Island-based non-profit group that works with schools and women's groups in Kenya. Island schools are twinned with 18 school in Kenya.

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