Education Across Oceans: One Student’s Fight for Education from Her Home City to Her Homeland
Living in the western world, students are not always aware of the changes that are occurring in education internationally. With students that come from other parts of the globe, such as Katebah Alolefi from Yemen, education is just as important a topic as it is for many American-born students.
Katebah, an American resident since 2003, was born in Yemen, a nation with only a 64% literacy rate. Growing up in the Oakland school district of California, Katebah did not experience the system that produces these results, but because of family ties, she has been able to recognize a strong connection between the education she received and the education she would have received in her birth country.
In Oakland, like in Yemen, there are quite a few areas where improvement is drastically needed educationally, namely in accessibility and in safety. In her mission to change education, in both Oakland and Yemen, Katebah
Katebah, an American resident since 2003, was born in Yemen, a nation with only a 64% literacy rate. Growing up in the Oakland school district of California, Katebah did not experience the system that produces these results, but because of family ties, she has been able to recognize a strong connection between the education she received and the education she would have received in her birth country.
In Oakland, like in Yemen, there are quite a few areas where improvement is drastically needed educationally, namely in accessibility and in safety. In her mission to change education, in both Oakland and Yemen, Katebah
