Pinch Me: A Long Walk From The Prairies
“Pinch Me: A long Walk From the Prairies Chronicles the Life of an Extraordinary Woman who was the first female principal of a secondary school in British Columbia and co-founder of ACCES, a non profit educational organization that has helped thousands of young Kenyans go to school. ”
VANCOUVER – Beth Rowles Scott has not lived an ordinary life. Growing up as an overweight child in a humble but loving home on the Canadian Prairies, her life has been one serendipitous adventure after another. Along the way, she discovered a simple formula for happiness that has worked for her; Someone to Love, Something to Do and Something to Look Forward To.
Pinch Me: A Long Walk from the Prairies is a heart-warming memoir that reveals how this simple philosophy guided her on a journey on the road less traveled from her native Saskatchewan to a new home in British Columbia. After obtaining an education degree from the University of British Columbia, she blazed a trail for British Columbia women by becoming the first female principal of a secondary school in that province. After retiring from a successful career as a teacher and educational administrator, she meets and marries the love of her life. Together they in 1993 co-founded ACCES (African Canadian Continuing Education Society) a model non-profit organization that is dedicated to defeating poverty in Western Kenya through education (in 1999, she received the prestigious Lewis Perinbaum award for Excellence in International Development). Today ACCES is managed by Kenyans, has four key programs that benefit more than 1800 young Kenyans annually and has opened ten schools in Kenya.
“Beth Rowles Scott writes of her vivid experiences and remarkable accomplishments with passion, wit and grace. Walk with her as she shares her self-discoveries, joys, pains and losses, starting with her near-pioneering childhood on the frozen plains of Saskatchewan and reaching to a fulfilling and fulfilled maturity on the burning plains of Africa. What a wonderful life-enhancing book this is.”
-Jerold Mundis, author of Gerhardt’s Children, The Dogs and other books, former editor of the New York Times
For additional information about the book, see www.granvilleislandpublishing.com Netproceeds from the sale of Pinch Me will be donated to ACCES.
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