16/09/2025
Very inspiring! Thank you our teachers for your selfless dedication.
In a land where dust rises with every step and schools are made of bare walls and worn-out desks, there is a man who walks into the classroom each morning with the fervor of a missionary. His name is Peter Tabichi. He is a Franciscan brother, but above all, a science teacher. His classroom stands in a remote village in Kenya, where poverty is not just a condition but a daily battle.
His students come from far away. Some walk kilometers under the scorching sun, others haven’t eaten for hours, many don’t even own a notebook or a pen. Internet is a mirage, electricity a rare luxury. Yet the greatest hunger is not of the body: it is the hunger for knowledge, for redemption, for a future. And this is the hunger Peter has chosen to feed.
Not with fine words, but with concrete actions. Tabichi donates 80% of his salary to buy uniforms, shoes, hot meals, books. He does it quietly, without seeking recognition. For him, teaching is an act of love. It is telling a child that they matter. That they can become someone. That they are not just poverty, or a fate already written.
Thanks to his dedication, those students once forgotten by the world now win international science competitions, carry out experiments that astonish juries, and speak in public with bright eyes and open minds. Because someone believed in them before they believed in themselves.
In 2019, the world finally noticed: Peter Tabichi won the Global Teacher Prize, awarded to the best teacher on the planet. He received one million dollars. But he did not change his way of life. He did not leave the village. He bought nothing for himself. He kept sharing, helping, building schools, nurturing dreams.
Today he still lives in Kenya, in the quiet of his simplicity. He walks among the desks, calls each student by name, looks them in the eye, and says: “You can.” And they believe him. Because a true teacher is not the one who teaches with words, but the one who changes lives by example.
Peter Tabichi has not only saved hundreds of young people. He has rewritten the meaning of the word education. He has shown that even in the most forgotten places, a light can be born—one bright enough to illuminate the entire world.
📸 Actor Hugh Jackman presenting the 2019 Global Teacher Prize to Peter Tabichi, the Kenyan Franciscan brother honored as the world’s best teacher for his extraordinary commitment to education in a rural village of Kenya.
