By Daniel Marungu | Project Leader
This has really been a breath-taking season for teachers and parents, but great fun for children. Both teachers and parents have all been worrying about the safety of the children, yet the children found it interesting and fun to play in water, mud and rain on their way to or from school.
In fact it became our concern that we had to change our lesson plans to teach our children about safety measures during heavy rains and floods. An example is children were advised to ask for help from an adult to cross over a flooded path, and not to drink water from the floods but only safe drinking water from home or at school. We were very careful not to induce fear in the children but give them possibilities for life during rains.
Our classrooms are made of iron sheets without a ceiling. Every time it rained, it became too noisy and sometimes wet due to leaking roofs. Still, our children got excited about noise and leakages. They played with water from the leaking roof. They were very happy because no teaching could take place at such a time.
Our children almost drowned on their way back home. It was the first time we have experienced floods in our area. When the rains had just ended, we released our children but little did we know that there was a place that got flooded. Lucky enough, there was an on-looking Samaritan that helped our children to cross over.
We therefore made it compulsory for parents to escort and collect their children from school. When this was not possible, teachers or other volunteering community members had to assist. It has been really tough but awakening. We have lived all these years without worrying or teaching our children about floods.
It has been a really tough season in terms of logistics and safety measures for children. However, all our children are safe and sound against all odds of the heavy rainfalls that have been going on. The school is now catching up with the lost hours of teaching.
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