Diane Dobitz grew up in a large family where she learned the values of sharing, caring, hard work, and giving to those in need. After earning a degree in education she became a teacher. From there her teaching grew to large for one classroom. During her summers she volunteered in Appalachia, on an Indian Reservation, for people mentally and physically-challenged, and from 1986-1992 she lived and taught as a volunteer, in Kenya, East Africa. There she helped build and staff a primary girls’school that continues to operate today. When she returned to the U.S., she taught English as a second language to members of the community. She then taught children from refugee and immigrant families in Minnesota. Diane’s cross-cultural experience of life and work in Kenya allows her to reach out beyond the children at school to their newcomer families in our community.“

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