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Noble Kelly, Teachers Without Borders Canada President, has worked tirelessly to lead program development in Kenya and South Africa as well as create a TWB Canada Community Online Network.

Noble’s first experience in South Africa was in 2005 working with abandoned and orphaned boys cared for by a friend in Durban. The satisfaction felt... more »

Noble Kelly, Teachers Without Borders Canada President, has worked tirelessly to lead program development in Kenya and South Africa as well as create a TWB Canada Community Online Network.

Noble’s first experience in South Africa was in 2005 working with abandoned and orphaned boys cared for by a friend in Durban. The satisfaction felt was immediate. In November 2006, he met Teachers Without Borders founder, Fred Mednick, and Yunus Peer and his Hawaiian team responsible for the work done in South Africa in the past years. Reading TWB’s philosophy and meeting these people only solidified his trust that he was affiliating with the right organization. After teaching high school information technology and business courses for 17 years in British Columbia, he found himself becoming frustrated with the negative political climate teachers seem to be facing and the way many students and parents were taking education for granted. He knew it was time for him to get back to the reason he went into teaching in the first place: to make a difference.

He embarked on a journey to establish TWB in Canada and to do what he could to close the global educational divide. Now Teachers Without Borders in Canada is thriving. After incorporation in March 2007, receiving charitable status in April 2007, developing an infrastructure that sees provincial liaisons in multiple provinces and territories across Canada, and a membership list in the hundreds, TWB-Canada was able to initiate and implement projects in Kenya and South Africa in 2008. Noble has a strong desire to help create and maintain a sustainable model to support our work with teachers at the grassroots.

Another major goal for him is to collaborate and coordinate with various educational technologists from around the world to work on workshop and curriculum design and implementation for ICT integration and use for teachers in developing regions. This is a major focus for many developing countries and a great opportunity to use technology to enable teachers to tap into a great resource and to connect to colleagues and classrooms around the world — becoming participants in global education. Noble’s passion is to connect classrooms so that relationships are developed, students are engaged and borders are dissolved. Visit us at www.twbcanada.org. « less