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Subscribe to RSSEstella Pyfrom, a former teacher in Florida, is making a difference in her community by helping underserved children learn more about technology with the use of a mobile classroom she called the 'Brilliant Bus.' NBC's Kerry Sander reports.
Monday on 'NBC Nightly News,' Kerry Sanders profiled the daughter of migrant farm workers, Estella Pyfrom, who is now providing underserved children with access to technology aboard her 'Brilliant Bus.' It's a project she bankrolled herself after working for decades as a teacher and observing the 'digital divide' first-hand.
Click here to visit the Brilliant Bus website and learn more about Pyfrom's organization.
Retired teacher Estella Pyfrom, 76, has spent nearly a million dollars -- much of it from her own savings -- to provide Internet and computer access to low-income students in Riviera Beach, Florida.
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This is the News I want to see. People helping people. Thanks NBC! YOU ROCK!!!
That is Money well spent. Great news, good story and I pray the children learn lots and do better for the opportunity given.
YO! Apple, take you $1000.00 IPAD and invest it into this program.
Wow! Riviera Beach made the evening news! What an unselfish, dedicated retired teacher!!!
Great story. We need more financially secure retired folks like her doing good things in the community. One thing I've come to realize is that you can't take accumulated wealth with you, but you sure can leave a lasting legacy.
Watching your piece on the nightly news, and I was impressed with Estellas Brilliant Bus, and she has truly dedicated her life to helping children in low income areas. My question is what happens when the bus is no longer there. However the local libraries are always around and they are permanent. As the director of a small one room library in central Florida, I know the value of libraries and how every after noon the local kids are in this library doing there homework, and useing computers as they do not have them at home or access to the internet. Libraries have been a part of the learning process since the days of Benjamin Franklin and they do an awesome job of offering comuputers and homework help and they are permanent. Thank You Linda Busch
Thanks to Kerry Sanders for his great reporting on the West Palm Beach charity, "Estella's Brilliant Bus." Everyone at Palm Beach State College (and its Small Business Development Center) are delighted that Miss Estella is finally getting the acclaim she so deserves!