Nakuru Teacher inches near to the $1m award

Peter Tabichi, a Maths and Physics teacher at Keriko Secondary School, Pwani Village, Nakuru, Kenya, has emerged the only African among the top 10 finalists for the $1million Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize 2019. The other nine teachers on the list are Vladimer Apkhazava, a Civic Education teacher at Chibati Public School, Tbilisi, Georgia; Deborah Garofalo , the Technologies for Learning teacher at EMEF Admiral Ary Parreiras, São Paulo, Brazil; Daisy Mertens, an all subjects teacher at community-based school De Vuurvogel, Helmond, Netherlands; Andrew Moffat MBE, a Personal Social Health Education (PSHE) teacher from Parkfield Community School, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom.

Also on the list are Of Rawal Swaroop , a Teacher of Life Skills, Lavad at the Primary one, School, Gujarat, Melissa Salguero, a Music teacher at P.S.48 Joseph R Drake elementary school, the Bronx, New York, United States; Martin Salvetti, Head of Automative Studies and Adult Professional Training, at EEST N°5 “2 de Abril” Temperley, Temperley, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Yasodai Selvakumaran, a history and society and culture teacher, at Rooty Hill High School, New South Wales, Australia;and Hidekazu Shoto, an English language and ICT teacher at Ritsumeikan Primary School, Kyoto, Japan.

Now in its fifth year, the US$1 million award is the largest prize of its kind.Kenyan Peter Tabichi and the other finalists were selected from over 10,000 nominations and applications from 179 countries around the world.