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Lola Alapo
K-12 Education Reporter
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A native of Nigeria, West Africa, Lola Alapo grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. She came to the Knoxville News Sentinel in January 2003 as a general assignment reporter. She covered police, courts, and diversity-related stories until September 2006 when she was assigned the education beat.
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Children welcome a visitor during a visit to a school in Molo, Kenya. This school is one of a few that opened in the valley after the violence.
Women wash clothes near the community water source in the Mathare Valley slum community in Nairobi, Kenya. Laundry by hand is one example of day laborer job.
John Mathenge looks over papers that documents how many displaced people lived on his property, and cost of food and care for them. He lives in Molo, a large town in the Rift Valley in Kenya. His daughter, Rebecca Rukeyser, lives in Knoxville. She's started a fund for resettlement efforts in Molo.
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