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July 31st, 2018 | 1 min read

By Matthew Loftus

When I was in college, I spent three summers living in Kenya and working in Kibera, an urban slum that is home to over a million people. It was there that I first felt called to long-term cross-cultural work, worked in intense poverty every day, and had the opportunity to learn from the poor by working with them. I have learned a lot since then and have not yet returned to Kibera, but this essay about a well-meaning effort to build a school in the community was fascinating to me:

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Matthew Loftus

Matthew grew up in a family of 15 children and completed his medical training in Baltimore, Maryland. Since 2015, he and his family have lived in East Africa, where he currently teaches and practices Family Medicine at a mission hospital. His work has appeared in outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Atlantis, and Mere Orthodoxy and his first book is forthcoming from InterVarsity Press. You can learn more about his work and writing at www.matthewandmaggie.org.