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Cornfields surround St. John Bosco Rehabilitation Centre<\/a>, located on the outskirts of Kitale, a small city in western Kenya. This modest campus is home during the week to 59 children between the ages of 8 and 12. Some had never been to school before. Some had never even held a pencil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maryknoll Lay Missioner Theresa Glaser<\/a>, a veteran teacher who joined the staff in 2023, describes the humble center lovingly: \u201cIt is holy ground.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A project of the Diocese of Kitale, St. John Bosco has long partnered with Maryknoll Lay Missioners. Its goal is to rescue and rehabilitate children who were living on the streets or at risk of ending up there due to family problems. Social workers determine which children need the most help through interviews and home visits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The center provides remedial education so students can enter the Kenyan school system and offers a structured, stable environment where the children can thrive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of Glaser\u2019s many roles is to reinforce the learning of English  \u2014 a crucial subject since in Kenya, English is the language of instruction starting in fourth grade. Most of her students, she notes, arrive without knowing a word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The missioner invites children to her classroom to draw, read books or play board games. Coming across a weathered games table no longer in use at the center, Glaser spent some 60 hours obtaining special paint and varnish and then refurbishing it. Today, the table is back in action, and students line up to play snakes and ladders or checkers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSeeing them navigate a die, take turns, follow number sequences and think strategically made me realize how these simple games help children develop useful skills,\u201d she says. \u201cWho knew learning could be this fun?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Glaser teaches at St. John Bosco Rehabilitation Centre in Kitale, Kenya, which provides remedial education and a caring environment for children at risk of living on the streets. (Courtesy of Theresa Glaser and Maryknoll Lay Missioners\/Kenya)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A typical day for Glaser may include preparing art materials, grading papers alongside fellow teachers, or filling jugs with water to teach students about volume and capacity. \u201cI love the creativity of teaching,\u201d she says, adding that she enjoys \u201cdesigning lab-based, hands-on lessons.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glaser holds a doctorate in biological sciences from the University of Cincinnati. Prior to teaching, she worked for 14 years as a research scientist in the United States, Australia and Switzerland. She then spent decades teaching science in inner-city high schools in Ohio and South Carolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glaser admits to being drawn to \u201cchallenging situations,\u201d referring to her ministries. \u201cThat\u2019s where the need is greatest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arriving in Kitale, Glaser encountered a new level of need. \u201cI\u2019ve been a teacher for 36 years,\u201d she says. \u201cWhen I first saw a child holding a pencil sharpened at both ends, worn to a nub, I was stunned.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She tells another story from St. John Bosco. To avoid the disruption caused by children sharing the classroom\u2019s single eraser, she procured individual erasers. As she handed them out, children responded, \u201cGod bless you.\u201d This simplest of school supplies, she says, is a valuable gift for vulnerable children experiencing scarcity and loss.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of them is an 8-year-old boy whose family survives on just one meal a day. Before arriving at St. John Bosco, Noah spent his days begging on the streets and scavenging at a garbage dump for plastic or metal to sell. Noah\u2019s brother, only a few years older than him, was killed in a clash with police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the classroom, students benefit from Glaser\u2019s creative teaching techniques such as activities to develop basic math skills and games to reinforce English language learning. (Courtesy of Theresa Glaser and Maryknoll Lay Missioners\/Kenya)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

While situations such as these are sobering, Glaser finds daily inspiration in the resilience of the students and staff. Four team members are themselves graduates of the center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRescued from situations of extreme poverty, they were rehabilitated and supported through secondary and higher education,\u201d Glaser says. \u201cToday they are teachers, social workers and mentors. They embody what\u2019s possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glaser\u2019s own path to mission began during childhood. She recalls that at her family\u2019s home in Lima, Ohio, she once pointed to a map of Africa and declared to one of her four sisters, \u201cWhen I grow up, I\u2019m going to be a missionary there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glaser says she \u201cforgot that moment for 40 years,\u201d but later, while teaching at a Franciscan high school, she felt a quiet pull toward Africa again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2008, she joined a Catholic Relief Services<\/a> HIV\/AIDS care team in The Gambia. The team brought food and medicine to remote villages, supported orphaned children and ran mobile clinics in the West African country. \u201cIt was the best year of my life,\u201d Glaser says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With CRS she was a volunteer, Glaser says. \u201cBut my diocese, the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, heard I was going to Africa and offered me a small amount of financial support as a \u2018missionary.\u2019 So I called my sister and said, \u2018Do you remember what I said about going to Africa as a missionary?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When she retired from teaching in 2021, Glaser felt the call to mission again. \u201cI realized I had a few good years of health and energy left \u2014 and I wanted to spend them in direct service to the world\u2019s poorest.\u201d She had known Maryknoll her whole life, thanks to the steady arrival of Maryknoll<\/em> magazine at her family home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glaser, now 73, sees mission as a mutual exchange. \u201cOn a spiritual level, what I hope to accomplish is to be changed, stretched and challenged by the lives of the people with whom I interact. You don\u2019t come away from the experience without being given as much as you may be giving.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She often reflects on Saint Paul\u2019s words<\/a> in chapter 13 of the First Letter to the Corinthians. He wrote that in the end, there are three things that last: faith, hope and love. In people who are experiencing poverty, she says, she sees those virtues lived out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am not saying \u2018it is good to be poor because the poor are happy,\u2019\u201d Glaser says. \u201cBut maybe my relative comfort and wealth has resulted in a diminished practice of love. I\u2019m learning from them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her spiritual life is sustained by daily Mass (she rises at 4:30 a.m. to walk 30 minutes to the Immaculate Conception Cathedral) and by small, intentional acts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On hard days, looking ahead keeps her going: \u201cI imagine what these scruffy little kids will become in 10 or 12 years.\u201d Glaser watches them play on the games table she lovingly restored \u2014 and she gains an understanding of her own past that led to this moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBy Kenyan rules, kings can move anywhere across the board,\u201d Glaser says of the game of checkers. \u201cI see how these children have gone from life on the streets to schooling that opens doors to brighter futures.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The missioner reflects, \u201cI also think of my path from research scientist, to teaching in inner-city schools, to now serving in Kenya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn this least glamorous role, I\u2019ve found the greatest reward: supporting children so that they, too, might be \u2018kinged\u2019 in the game of life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Featured image: Maryknoll Lay Missioner Theresa Glaser says in mission she has found \u201cthe greatest reward.\u201d (Courtesy of Theresa Glaser and Maryknoll Lay Missioners\/Kenya)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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