As
Desperate Housewives goes temporarily off the airwaves,
Teri Hatcher, who plays Susan Mayer on the hit series, drops by Nairobi, Kenya to help transmit aid for a non-profit organization that provides education, food, and housing to children and adults alike who are affected by poverty and AIDS in the African capital.
And while Hatcher presented the check for the $35,000 raised for the donation, she said it was her 10-year-old daughter who made the big impression on a school they visited in Nairobi, not she, the big television star.
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"They loved my daughter," she said. "We talked about math. We joked. They would say, 'What subjects do you like in school? What's your hardest subject? What do you like? What do you do? What's your favorite thing to do?' We talked about sports. We talked about who likes science, who likes math, who doesn't like math, 'fractions are hard,' stuff like that.
“She's been more excited about that, I think, than seeing the giraffes and the hippos."
Moreover, the
Desperate Housewives star said her daughter brought in around 40 letters from her classmates in the U.S. to start a pen-pal exchange with the children from the boarding school. She also visited an orphanage in Nairobi's Mukuru slum, all in her effort to raise money to help improve conditions of such depressed communities especially the children.
"I was sitting just surrounded by kids and I was saying, 'What do you like to do? What's your favourite thing to do during the day?' And I think the one kid thought I said, 'What's your favourite day?' Because he said, 'My favourite day is this day,' " Hatcher said.
-Glenn L. Diaz, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source:
The Canadian Press
(Image Courtesy of People)